National Book Lovers Day
National Book Lovers Day falls on the 9th August and what a wonderful day it will be. A day when we can celebrate literature as a community of book lovers from all corners, no matter of […]
English
Benefits of being Bilingual or Multilingual
What does it really mean being bilingual or multilingual? The most general answer would be people who can speak two or three languages fluently. How do we measure our language ability in order to know […]
English. . . in the Workplace?
When I heard about the English in the Workplace module back when I was picking my second year subjects, I thought it was going to be about stocking shelves in Waterstones (because books, I guess) […]
Is Being An Academic Rep Worth it?
If you’re a fan of Resident Evil, you’ll understand why I got excited when I learnt that there was something called STARS in my first year at Staffs. Uni must be pretty intense if it […]
My First Day: Welcome Week
Getting to know the people I’d be studying with for the next three years started, for me, on Facebook. A day or so after I got the confirmation I’d be going to uni, I joined […]
Third Year: Does The Hard Work Start Now?
“First Year doesn’t count”: a phrase that I heard a lot during my first couple of months of uni, but I heard it even more when first year was coming to an end. It was […]
4 Best Things About…English And Creative Writing
We all know the cliché about English degrees: the author writes that the curtains are blue and it symbolises the internal woe of the character, or they’re red curtains and it’s a Freudian symbol for motherhood […]