• Fresher’s Memoirs – Day 6: The Bar Crawl

    The last of our six Fresher’s Memoirs, Arts Editor Esther herself reflects her own Fresher’s memory in ‘The Bar Crawl’ Clad in a short tartan skirt and a red vest top, I drunkenly stumbled down the road following the dregs of music and conversation that drifted towards me like...
  • Features’ SU Correspondent Vs A New Semester

    We all know the feeling. The hollow promise of Christmas filled with the twinge of January exams and deadlines. The holiday period was a mixture of highs alongside the unrelenting reminder of stress heavy on your conscience, demanding to be acknowledged. December comes and goes, and the new year...
  • Lectures: To Record or Not to Record?

    As technology advances, different methods of teaching are becoming available to universities across the country. Impact’s Ellie Wright and Esther Kearney have gone at the heart of one of the university’s most heated debates around this: should lectures be recorded or not? Many people can relate to the suffering involved...
  • How To Make Friends During Freshers’

    To all you Freshers out there, you may start to sweat at the mere mention of the dreaded act of socialisation.  In order to help you through this awkward, angst inducing stage of life – I thought I would share my own experiences with making friends in first year...