News, views and opinions from a Gàidheal
It’s a weird feeling that I’m halfway through my uni days already. It doesn’t seem that long since I arrived in Aberdeen for Freshers’ Week, but now the real hard work is on the way and in a sense everything that I’ve done in education has built up to these next two years. No pressure. The best thing about 2nd year was living in a proper flat. Halls was a good experience, and I don’t think your university experience would be complete without going into — Read more →
With this blog I will have made it to the milestone of 100 posts (not counting translations of my Gàidhlig pieces), which is something I’m pretty happy about. When I opened up this site in October, I wondered whether I’d have the drive and determination to keep writing posts a few times a week even a few months down the line. Thankfully, I have – and it has reaffirmed the fact that writing is something I really enjoy and something I’d hope to do for — Read more →
2014 so far in social media has been dominated by viral posts where someone does something and then tags friends to join in on the antics. First were neknominations, where someone downs a drink of choice and then nominates friends do the same. Neknominations were largely uninteresting videos with a rather boring concept around them, once you had seen one or two. These also got bad press, and probably deservingly enough, for glorifying binge drinking and being dubiously tied to the tragic deaths of some — Read more →
Getting older is an inevitable fact of life, but it never fails to surprise us that another year has gone by when a birthday comes up, does it? Tomorrow my teenage years come to an end and what strikes me at the moment is not a sense of becoming an adult, but that I already am. Being 19 hasn’t really been anything special in and of itself. The four or five birthdays before that one all had some special significance to them – but my — Read more →
I can’t think of anything in my young life which provides more stress, anxiety and general unhappiness than the most dreaded part of the education system: Exams. Your entire course builds up to a crucial and make-or-break few hours, where your success or failure as a student is measured. It’s a horrible situation to be in. Gladly, today I finished my last exam of this semester of uni, and I couldn’t be happier. Exams are old hat to me now at this stage in my — Read more →
