It’s time to party on campus Ginny Sanderson Newspaper Comment Editor
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university in New Jersey turned their library into a nightclub to celebrate finals. I know what you’re thinking: you’re sizing up the Templeman in your head. The cafe becomes a bar, the ‘social’ area plays club tunes, and just upstairs is R&B and the silent section becomes a silent disco. Well, library nightclubs are too mainstream now, and there are many superior places on campus crying to be renovated into legit clubbing honeypots. I pay nine grand a year, I know my rights! I expect to be able to party wherever and whenever I should choose on campus. Here is a list I have compiled of the most eligible locations for fellow students to ‘pardy’, as Jamie Laing (Made in Chelsea) would put it. Rutherford Ohmygosh wouldn’t it be amazing if there was a bar in Rutherford. Oh wait... too soon?
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Essentials Booze and munchies for everyone! AND BURGERS! The aisles restrict the dancing, admittedly, but take it as an opportunity to get economic with your moves. Darwin Tower Room This should separate the boys from the men. Challenge one: find the tower. Challenge two: trek the four hundred flights of stairs to reach desired location. If you’re one of those whitegirls wasted at pre-drinks, no way are you going to bother scaling those heights.This makes for an elite group of cool, determined people at the party. Note: it may be so exclusive no one shows up. The Senate You know, that small building in front of the library that looks like it’s made out of Lego? What else is it for? Woolf Lecture Theatre 1 Helloooo! Have you ever been to this
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gargantuan room and imagined how much the floor would be improved if it was smattered in empty beer cans, bits of glass and cigarette paraphernalia? It’s what Virginia Woolf would have wanted. Maybe. The Parkwood Pavillion Yes, it’s leagues away from civilisation. But that’s to a club’s advantage: less whiny neighbours, so less chance of being broken up by the popo! It’s foolproof. Bonus points for playing tennis or netball drunk. Try not to hurt yourself though. The weird crop circles on the field behind Eliot Obviously it has to be reasonably warm for this. The perfect destination for a summer equinox pagan piss up. Bring shisha and a blanket to sit on. The Student Media Centre Not that it isn’t already a party over here, but we could all appreciate some alcohol from time to time. Note: do not attempt to actually take this article literally. Unless you invite me.
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Look no further for your study buddy Shalyia Arumugathasan
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hen starting the new year we all try to set ourselves new resolutions, and students such as ourselves always tend to say we will study harder. Luckily with the Internet and technology advancing as quickly as it is, it makes this goal much easier to achieve. There are millions of apps and websites out there to help us students study more efficiently. I've narrowed these down to some of my favourites. The best for organisation is the app Evernote. It allows you to make to-do lists and set dates for when you have to do it by, and nothing is more satisfying then ticking something off as done! Additionally it saves notes in it and it has a camera function so you can take pictures of documents or even business cards. This app is easy to use and straightforward for sorting out your work. Next, I found Microsoft’s OneNote app is perfect for actually typing up revision notes and essay plans and general work. You can create different notebooks for each subject or module and within each you create different sections and within that as many
pages as you require. For those of you who prefer to do all of your work on a computer or laptop, this is perfect for you. You can have your entire coursework on your laptop, where you are able to access your work from any device. Another favourite website for students is RefMe especially for those of you who are doing esay based degrees. Referencing essays can be long and tiresome, also difficult when making sure you are using the right system. RefMe makes it swift and easy to reference your sources, deducting hours from your work time! Now, these apps although, helpful for getting work done, they still don’t make the job any less tedious, that’s why the next few apps are more of a fun and motivating way to study. Firstly the website WrittenKitten! This is a very clever website to motivate you to keep writing your essays - when you reach a certain amount of words you receive a cute animal picture, it also saves your work even if you accidentally close the window. I know seminar presentations can also be quite dull to get through, therefore Prezi is the best solution for this. It is
a creative website where you can spice up your presentation with hundreds of different effects and styles; you can play around endlessly perfecting your presentations. Lastly my favourite is the Countdown app, one which every student will love. It does countdowns for exam dates and assignments or even fun events planned for after your exams are done. This is a good way to motivate and reassure you that it is not long until you can have a break or be free of deadlines. Therefore this term studying will be easier, all these apps and websites are easily accessible from most devices.
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Recipe Sian Pratley
Sweet Coconut Loaf You don’t need any fancy equipment to make this, just your trusty cake tin. I usually bake this in a loaf tin, but you can put it in any old cake tin or even make it into cupcakes. Poundland is surprisingly good for bakeware if you don’t own any. This cake is fluffly. light and best served warm. Ingredients: 85g dessicated coconut 120g cup caster sugar 135g cup self-raising flour 250 ml coconut milk or milk Optional additions: 64g cocoa powder for a chocolate loaf Chocolate chips Roughly chopped nuts 1 tsp cinnamon Zest of 1 lemon 1 tsp vanilla extract A lemon glaze: 1 tbsp lemon juice & 32g cup icing sugar Directions: 1. Preheat your oven to 180˚C 2. Grease your cake tin by rubbing butter and flour on the sides and base. 3. Mix the self raising flour and caster sugar together. 4. Add the dessicated coconut 5. Pour in the milk and mix until the mixure is smooth with no lumps. 6. For a loaf: bake for 50 minutes to 60 minutes, (cover with foil if the top is browning too quickly.) For cupcakes: bake for 25 – 35 minutes For a round cake: bake for 30 minutes 7. Poke a knife in the centre to check if its done. If the knife comes out clean, its done. If not, leave for another 5 minutes.
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