Social media, some people love it and some people hate it. Personally I’m a big fan, most likely because I like expressing my opinion and I enjoy laughing at those Scottish tweets far too much. Another reason I like social media is because I feel like it has given people the opportunity to have their
Month: February 2018
In another colorful news week, the president was accused of what’s called “slut-shaming” when he fired out a tweet at New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. After tweeting about the president and his shortcomings in a series of multi-day statements, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand implied that the women behind the curtains of Trump’s past sexual assault accusations
It is no secret that in the news recently there has been a lot of allegations against stars in Hollywood and the emergence of the Me-Too hashtag has left a lot of people confused. Is it related? Why has my friend put it on Facebook / twitter / Instagram? Should I? I’m here to explain
On Friday the 27th of January, KFC tweeted a video to advertise their new “Smoky Mountain BBQ” chicken. KFC’s advertising campaigns are renown to star their legendary mascot Colonel Sanders – however, in this recent video the star of the show is a female Colonel. The role of Colonel Sanders was taken up by Reba
From my point of view, I am not your average normal student that you see walking down Jordanstown Mall on a Friday morning, late for a lecture after their mad night out at ‘Sketchy’ Thursdays in Limelight. Don’t get me wrong though I’ve most definitely had my fair share of that and nowadays still
Yes, we get our student loan and many of us don’t take life too seriously as we enjoy our final years without major responsibility. My aunt will often ask me how I do it; concert here, night out there… a little trip to Barcelona. But that was last year and the year before… this year
Last year I was working on my placement year in Meteor Electrical in County Tyrone. A 5 minute drive from my home. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience working there and my placement year was definitely something I enjoyed doing. I knew coming back to university there would be a huge difference again as there are
My name is Georgia McCalmont and I am in final year of my Communication Management and Public Relations course. I have decided to write this post to inform other mums who may feel like taking the plunge back into full-time education of how I got to here and also to encourage them that if I can
It’s safe to say that being a student is stressful to say the least. We’ve all been there. Struggling to balance the pile of books to and from classes, trying not to have a mental breakdown over the magnitude of those looming assignments, attending your job AND having a social life. There’s certainly not enough
As my last ever first semester of being a student slowly comes to an end this month, I decided to reflect on how quick the semester flew by (because it was non-stop hectic) and what I have learnt from this semester. You always hear warnings from other people about how much more intense and busy