My Experience of Online Learning
The university experience has certainly shifted in these last few months. Everything from the way lectures are running, to the experience of halls has had to adapt to these frightening and very challenging times...
Author: Lauren Davison
2020: Getting Through It Together
It’s safe to say the world has been turned completely upside down this year. And there is no doubt that, as students, it has been a very tumultuous time. With so much uncertainty and...
Making Changes
I am now in my second year at Derby, and although we are just a few weeks in, I made a decision that I definitely didn’t expect to. When I first looked at my...
Pushing Myself
Ever since I completed my first-class presentation a couple of weeks back, I’ve been thinking that I should try and challenge myself more. Since starting university last year, I have fell into a pretty...
Beating the Nerves- Presentations
With university I knew that it was heavily based on upon independent study which is something I’m okay with. The thing I’m not very good at is speaking up in my classes and in...
Money Worries
Alongside university comes the worry of finances. Its something I’ve thought about a lot more since preparing for university and so I thought writing about it could be interesting. Admittedly I found the idea...
Being Organised (or trying to!)
If there is one thing, I have learnt in my time at university so far, it is that you can’t underestimate the importance of organisation. There is so much to keep up with; everything...
The Life of a Joint Honours Student
When trying to decide what course I wanted to study, there wasn’t one that stood out massively to me. This was most likely because I had not yet settled on a specific career. Instead...
