As you all know I'm in shared accommodation here up in Keele with the most wonderful bunch of people, a large block with 30 rooms and currently only 26 people - we think!  We share one kitchen amongst the 26 of us, there's three cookers, five fridge freezers and one sink. Then we have the dining area - which we spend most of our time...

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I truly realised this weekend how much I love being at Keele. And, if anything, how lucky I am. My friend and I went to Manchester this Saturday with the intention of having a night out with three of her friends from Sheffield, this was more than unsuccessful. We were both wilting before we even got on the train, wilting even when we...

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For the first time since I moved to Keele, today, I feel truly homesick. I wanted to go for a walk but the country lanes around here aren't Cornwall. I just imagined all the routes I'd take back home when I needed some head space and instead took an hour long walk along a big road and just sat in a field thinking...

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It's been another wonderful and unusual week in Keele thanks to my block, my lovely lecturers, oh and the shot bar. I'm actually starting to get work to do now - a proof reading exercise, two short papers and a written exercise. Some I have plenty of time for, others not so much but I'm sure I can keep on top of it....

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Yesterday I did my first presentation for my Reading Film seminar group! I'd been paired up in the first week with the person sat at the other end of the table I was sitting at with the awkward two seat gap between us. Fortunately, he turned out to be a really nice guy. We both admitted we weren't particularly good public speakers -...

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Excuse my lack of posts since I've arrived at Keele, as it's only the third week I appear to spend my life doing one of five things; sleeping, eating, drinking alcohol, shopping or reading. As a student, I have no time for anything else! (I'm joking, I also do a little bit of exercise - drunken dancing). I spent my first real week reading...

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So far I can say that I pretty much love every thing about university and student life, except one thing - washing. I despise washing so so much, it stresses me out to an incredible extent. The machines eat your money and decide they'll be the ones that break today, the dryers are just as stubborn. And even complaints don't seem to get...

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It's my third weekend at Keele and we're still trying our hardest to live like we did during freshers week. We cough and announce we're 'dying', but we stay up late and continue to visit the infamous SU shot bar. I make life as a student seem pretty easy going - drinking this much is far from glamorous but it sure is fun. In the thick...

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As you all know now I've been at Keele Uni for 1 week and 3 days. I've spent a bit too much money so far, but that's not an irregular thing during freshers - if you've just had your freshers I'm sure you'll agree. My first shop came to just over £50 and this was kindly paid for by the bank of Mum...

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So, it's been a long forgetful week of Freshers and we've all come out of it alive, with colds (some heading towards flu), and still up for another drink. The drive up was good fun with my sister, Mum and Dad. We got me enrolled and arrived at Hawthorns block M (after mum freaked out about the directions to it). Unpacking a very...

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