Dorm Room Decoration Ideas
Making your room a part of who you are is vital to settling in to University. One way you can do this is through adding personal touches to it; a certain… je ne sais...
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Enhancing Your Mindset with Student Opportunities
The University of Derby, along with many other universities, offer many ways for you to develop both your academic and personal mindset outside and in the classroom. With workshops and drop-ins conducted regularly around...
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University Internships: What to Know
Stills taken from the film ‘The Internship’, directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, featuring Owen Wilson, Vaughn and Dylan O’Brien. Degrees supplemented with internships are vital in allowing postgraduates...
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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...
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu: Fuzzy, Nostalgic and Great Fun
As someone who is still two phases behind in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pokémon Detective Pikachu has been the most fun I’ve had at the cinema in a long time. An hour and 45...
Coping with change: Post-University
How Big is the Change? University is a time for exploration and discovering yourself. However when the partying has settled down and you are finishing your final dissertation in your last year you may...
How Coronavirus has Affected Our Mental Health
Mental health has become an increasingly talked about subject in the current climate. With the Coronavirus having loomed over us for many months, dominating our everyday interactions and ability to work, has this rare...
5 Simple Ways to Save Money and Help the Environment
These are trying times, and it can be stressful to consider that your piggy bank may run low sometime soon. More than ever, it is important to consider ways of saving those few pennies...
Bachelor Degrees Explained
Even when I was in the first year of uni I never fully understood how the grading system worked and what was considered a “good” or “bad” grade and it’s even more worrying when...
Personal Reflections on the University of Derby
Studying at university is about stretching and challenging students. How has your experience at Derby stretched and challenged you? My joint honours degree has widened my abilities. From theory to practicality, Derby Uni has...
Different Forms of Chat
My Little Premise The other day, a friend told me about how terrible I used to be at “shooting the breeze”. How over University I’d improved my ability to talk more about nothing, and...
What is ME/CFS? An Interview – Part Two
Source: http://www.friendswithme.org.uk/ Before you read on… This interview has been split into two parts, and this is the second. To read the first half, go to the Derby Union website, or click the link...
Derby Men’s Basketball 1sts 97-87 Nottingham Trent Men’s Basketball 1sts: Hosts into playoffs with brilliant victory
Derby Men’s Basketball 1st XI won the Men’s Midlands Tier 1 Division with a 97-87 victory over second-place Nottingham Trent. Both teams needed to win the contest to advance to the National playoffs but...
Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order: Worth It?
Platforms: Xbox One, PS4, PC Release Date: Out Now A fully single-player action-adventure Star Wars game. We’ve all been waiting a long while for something like this. But has it filled the lightsaber-wielding hole...
Nottingham Trent Men’s Basketball 1sts 96-92 Derby Men’s Basketball 1sts: Visitors knocked out of cup by local rivals
Words and image by Alex Wood. Derby Men’s Basketball 1sts crashed out of the cup against bitter rivals Nottingham Trent Men’s 1sts after losing 96-92 in a hard-fought contest. The hosts secured the victory...
