As beautiful as our little city, Durham, maybe, we sometimes need to evacuate and indulge in a day trip with our friends. Whilst looking for affordable places to visit, our criteria being: good Christmas Markets, further away than Newcastle, but not far enough as for The Trainline to make us pay the equivalent of plane ticket…
A week in Arolla, Switzerland – third year BSc Geography Fieldtrip
13th December 2019
Studying Geography at Durham is the best way to make your friends envy you! The integration of fieldwork into our course provides for amazing trips abroad that not many other degrees can boast about. In my third year studying BSc Geography, I jumped at the opportunity to continue to develop my research skills while in the Swiss…
I am a Student Champion for the Durham Inspired Award. The Award is a new personal enrichment and development programme for students. It recognises all that we do for the community and allows us the opportunity to reflect on our strengths and how we’ve grown throughout our time at Durham. You take part in three zones called…
Sunita and I had the privilege of attending a poetry breakfast during the Durham Book Festival back in October in which we got to interview none other than the festival poet laureate Raymond Antrobus. An incredibly approachable and down to earth person, he made the event personal, getting everyone engaged in a conversation about…
December has arrived. The Christmas season upon us. And with
it comes a theatre season up and down the country full of pantomime and farce.
The Assembly Rooms itself is joining in the fun, as we host Ooook! Productions’
The Magistrate this week.
Of course, both of these theatrical forms have a wealth of tradition and…
As a mathematics student, people often assume that my day is completely full of contact hours – and, to be fair, in the first and second year it was! But, as I’ve moved into the third year, my contact hours have really dropped, meaning I’ve had to learn how to manage my own time effectively. Here, I’m going to walk you…
One of the most frequently asked questions by Freshers (and,
indeed, a query often shared by finalists) is…well, what does my department want from me? You’ve escaped the world
of decodable mark-schemes. A simple inclusion of a key word no longer garners
easy points. Rather, it all sounds a bit…wishy-washy.
Essays are…
See the alliteration in the title? That’s just the kind of cheesiness we can get away with now that the grounds are laden with frost (at least in Durham, anyway), there’s a whisper of carols in the air, and festivities are creeping in around every corner. Our society is selling tickets for our annual Christmas Meal at the…
Durham gets best ever result in Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2019
5th December 2019
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge – a 3022km race across central Australia, cruising at highway speeds using less power than a hairdryer; with over 50 teams from 24 countries competing it is easily the largest and most exciting Solar race in the world. We went out as a team of 16 engineers from Durham University to race…
Hello everyone! Welcome back to another video. Housing in Durham can be a crazy experience. Everyone looks for housing early and it can be very stressful, particularly for first-years who do not yet know the area so well. In this video, I sum up some of the main areas you can live in Durham and the main things you need to…
