Take a trip to ‘the Toon’
Just a short bus journey, or only 12 minutes on a train from Durham station and you can be in the heart of Newcastle City centre. As well as a great choice of shops, bars and restaurants, Newcastle offers cinemas, theatres, museums and galleries, as well as a lively music scene to…
An undergraduate degree is intense at times – usually around exams in the third term. I’d existed for three years in a cycle of a relatively calm first term to the year, followed by a slightly more anxious second term, and finished off each academic year with an incredibly stressful third term. But then I had the summer to…
Summer is here. Schoolchildren have finished for the holidays, undergraduates are already a quarter of the way through their summer vacation, and it appears as if the glorious weather is here to stay. Durham Castle bustles with tours and weekend weddings, the Cathedral grounds are packed with picnickers, and the riverside…
The poet T. S. Eliot once noted that he measured out his life in coffee spoons. As a recent graduate, this is a sentiment I can relate to with painful certainty. For three years, I would embark upon a daily schedule of coffee breaks, punctuated with lectures, essay-writing, rowing, and the occasional appearance in Tutor…
