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Student Publication of the Year 2012

4/20: The Day of the Half-Blind Eye

‘This afternoon, all the students will go to campus and sit in a field getting really, really stoned,’ I was told. ‘It happens every year.’ This is 4/20: An annual mass celebration of all things marijuana that takes place every year on April 20th. It is observed with…

Saturday 1st June 2013

Impact interviews Simon Reeve

A modern explorer, Simon Reeve is the Michael Palin of our generation. Having grown up on Palin’s exploits himself as a child, Simon became more interested in the outside world than the one in the classroom. As Palin first went into other disciplines before becoming a traveller, Simon…

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Tuesday 23rd April 2013

How Brit is your Dish?

Back in 2011, during my second week in Nottingham as an exchange student, I finally decided to go grocery shopping. Following my roommate’s advice, I ended up at Tesco where I found, as he had warned me, the cheapest prices in a gigantic supermarket containing numerous variations of…

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Tuesday 23rd April 2013

Urban Silhouettes

Many of my childhood Sundays were spent driving around São Vicente do Sul, my hometown of  8,000 people in the extreme South of Brazil. After lunch, whilst most people were taking a nap, my mother would slowly drive us around; no destination, no rush. The window of the car…

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Tuesday 9th April 2013

Enjoy Edinburgh

Alexander McCall Smith wrote that Edinburgh is ‘a city of shifting lights, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.’ After the stressful January exam period, I decided to embark on a four day city break to the Scottish…

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Wednesday 20th March 2013

Diving the Costa Brava

After much deliberation, I decided to start my year abroad working in a Scuba Diving Centre in Spain. I agreed to work in exchange for my PADI Divemaster certificate which would allow me to assist instructors and lead qualified divers alone. The inspiration came from my first diving…

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Saturday 9th March 2013

The Man Who Cycled the World: Impact Interviews Mark Beaumont

On the 15th February 2008, Mark Beaumont cycled along the Champs Elysees in Paris, to set what was then the Guinness World Record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle, just 194 days and 17 hours after beginning his epic ride of 18,000 miles. Since then,…

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Thursday 7th March 2013

Austin: The Blueberry in the Cherry Pie

Bloomberg Business Week recently ranked Austin as the 8th best city in America, but unlike many of the other cities inside the top ten; New York, San Francisco and Washington DC for instance, few know much about the state capital of Texas. In fact, it has flown under…

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Thursday 7th March 2013

Voluntourism: The Business of Orphans

As the new term begins, you might be thinking about how you’re going to spend your impending weeks of freedom. Without a job or internship, those plans might be centred around travelling- maybe a holiday with friends, or an aid project abroad. Something reminiscent of those sweltering gap…

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Tuesday 5th March 2013

‘We were armed with Layers, Raisins & Two Sombreros’

Have you ever sat there watching people, wondering who they are, where they’re going and what they do? When you jump into somebody’s car you effectively jump into their lives 20km at a time. It was coming up to 8am and we, along with 100 others, were stood…

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