Diary of a Fresher: May 30 2011
As the melancholy Jaques explained in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, we all play our parts in this enormous cyclical play called life. In our old age we simply revert back to being the helpless, puking creatures we were as [...]
Diary of a Fresher: March 14 2010
I am currently preparing to mourn the end of several things. This is the last issue of London Student this term and I am struggling to see where I will find purpose in my life without this column. Who else [...]
Diary of a Fresher: February 28 2011
Time flies. February is over and it has been over a month since New Year’s resolutions were set and good intentions were had. I have a problem though. Every time I try and remember my New Year’s resolution I’m so [...]
Diary of a Fresher: February 14 2011
I am hideous, sniffling wreck of a mess. If you didn’t already know that, you must be one of the 10 people left in the whole entire world that I haven’t moaned to yet about how ill I feel. You [...]
Diary of a Fresher: January 31 2011
Since I was 12 years old I wanted to become a journalist. In hindsight, I’m not entirely sure if I knew what a journalist was when I was twelve. I had the most glorious image in my mind of myself [...]
Diary of a Fresher: January 17 2011
Ah, 2010, a year of thrills and oil spills, but for myself and many others it was the year of becoming a Fresher. I finally dusted off my feathers and flew the nest. So far, 2011 is the year of [...]
Diary of a Fresher: December 06 2010
Since moving to London I’ve dabbled in many things. I have given myself the title of Honorary Londoner and been a temporary member of the Mauritian Society for one fateful Freshers’ Week night. Last Thursday, I took up my most [...]
Diary of a Fresher: November 22 2010
On Wednesday 10th November 2010, I woke up on my day off at 8 o’clock in the morning. I didn’t go to bed until 2am, yet I still managed to scrape my sorry self out of bed. Only something truly [...]
London Loves Issue 10
I’m sat editing London Loves in a bedroom that smells of urine. And no, I’m not visiting my great grandmother in a NHS care home. In fact, I’m sat in my own bedroom minutes away from my University campus after [...]
Holly Thompson: The positive side of a vocational degree
On Tuesday 3rd February, ITV screened their take on the higher education debate: ‘The Value of a Degree: Tonight’. The programme showed several sixth-formers being interviewed on what they planned to study at university or college by a panel of [...]
Goldsmiths’ team kettle sends BBC boiling over
An attempt by Goldsmiths’ University Challenge team at making a political statement has been shut down by the BBC. The students had tried to use a large white kettle as their mascot at a studio recording on March 3rd in [...]
A student London fashion weekend
Every year in mid-February, London is taken over by designers, models, bloggers and fashionistas from all over the world to celebrate London Fashion Week at the beautiful Somerset House. The atmosphere is intoxicating: outside Somerset house is a thoroughfare of [...]
Video: LSE water balloon attack results in clashes
Amateur footage obtained by London Student captures some of the attack on the LSESU Palestine Society, which was holding a peaceful demonstration at the time. You can read the story in full here.
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Abs Hassanali
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Abs Hassanali. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
ULU Elections 2012: Three Minutes With…Ross Speer
An interview with vice-presidential candidate Ross Speer. Click the ‘TV’ tab above to view videos for the other candidates. You can also see their manifestos at www.ulu.co.uk/elections
Interview with The Manic Shine
The Manic Shine are a hot upcoming band. The band’s leader, Ozzie Rogers, hails from the LSE but has chosen the music industry, rather than finance, as his chosen career path.
The second sabbatical interview: an excerpt
In their second interview with London Student, Clare Solomon, ULU President, and Viktoria Szmolar, ULU Vice-President, discuss the current state of the student movement. This excerpt focuses on the momentum of student protest after the Christmas break.