I study for an Integrated Master’s in Chemistry, currently in my 4th and final year and I’m a member of Grey College. My two favourite things about my college are; the amazing proximity of the college to the science site, and since I became a liver out (not living in college) the friends I made whilst there, they are my best…
I first read about Music Durham on the University website prior to coming to Durham from Goa in India and knew that I simply had to get involved in it! After a crazy Freshers’ Week (…and first month) full of auditions and call-backs (both music and theatre, since I was apparently very keen to get involved!), I was ultimately…
Durham Drama Festival 2021 - Meet the writers (part 2)
8th February 2021
Hear from three more of our talented students who have written plays selected for this year’s Durham Drama Festival as it moves entirely online.
Esalan Gates, author of The Lovers
‘The Loversis an adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, a play of Shakespeare’s that is hilarious…
From the North of London to the North of England… A day in the life
3rd February 2021
Freshers? Friends? Societies? Maintaining a positive well-being? Hopefully, some of my experiences so far can put some minds at ease!
Freshers’ week
Freshers’ was definitely something far from what I expected it to be like. To be honest, I really did not have an expectation beforehand but it was definitely a…
Why is networking so important?
I am the first in my family to go to University, and so when I arrived in Durham in 2017, I had never heard of ‘networking’, I didn’t understand why it’s important, and had no clue about how to get stuck in. It took me a little while to really get this, but in essence, networking is…
The Durham Original Music & Alumni Network (DOMAN) functions around connection. In-person networking events, jam sessions and showcases created the bedrock of what we offered throughout most of the 2019/20 academic year. When the first spike of COVID-19 emerged in the United Kingdom, therefore, both the existing and incoming…
As we now approach the end of term, theatre in Durham would usually be in full swing but with the second lockdown having fallen upon us, it’s beginning to feel all too reminiscent to the first lockdown that swallowed theatre at the end of last academic year.
When I started that summer, exams finished and eager to establish…
Hi! My name is Olivia and I am a 2nd year studying Maths. I am also a member of Durham University tennis which normally takes up a lot of my time (check out my ‘Team Durham Student-Athlete Experience’ blog I did this time last year and my ‘Day in the Life’ Instagram story for…
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Starting university as the first-generation in your family and when coming from a typical state school in Newcastle is a bit of a daunting experience. Durham is different from many universities out there, our collegiate system induces a more tight-knit, decentralised set of student communities with their own set of etiquettes…
