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    The pressure to be “always on”

    October 16, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    The other night I caught myself refreshing my emails at midnight, not because I was waiting on anything urgent, not because I had a deadline, just… because. It’s like my brain has been wired to always check...

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  • Career

    Why placements aren’t everything (and how to make your own opportunities)

    October 13, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    When you’re studying media or journalism, or even just any university degree, placements feel like the holy grail. No one wants a student straight out of university without experience in the field, but how...

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  • Student Life

    The 3rd-year panic: when graduation suddenly feels too close

    October 9, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    There’s a moment in third year when it suddenly hits you: this is it. One second, you’re moving into your first-year halls, making questionable pasta in a shared kitchen, and the next, you’re staring...

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  • Culture

    The life of a showgirl: Taylors most controversial album yet

    October 6, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    Unless you live under a rock you would have heard that Taylor Swift has released her 12th studio album titled 'the life of a showgirl' on October 3. Amongst the hype and excitement, many 'swifty' predictions were seen to be wrong this time around...

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  • Culture

    What we know so far about Taylor Swift’s life of a showgirl

    October 2, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    Taylor Swift is about to enter yet another new era , and the swifties (and honestly, the entire internet) are buzzing. Her upcoming album Life of a Showgirl drops on October 4, and from everything...

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  • Career

    Is Journalism Still Worth It?

    September 29, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    Every time I tell someone I want to be a journalist, I get the same reaction: “Does anyone even read newspapers?” Honestly, I’ve asked myself the same thing more times than I can count. With constant...

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  • Culture

    What I learned from being online too much

    September 22, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    I’ll admit it, I spend too much time online. My screen time stats could win awards (and not the good kind), Like most of us, I’ve fallen into doom scrolling way too many times, starting with one TikTok...

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  • Student Life

    Why no one talks about the quiet parts of university

    September 15, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    When you imagine university, the picture is almost always loud: nights out, societies, packed libraries, endless stories with friends. That’s what gets shown in films, TikToks, even by the universities... .

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  • Opinion/deeper thoughts

    When was the last time you were actually bored?

    September 8, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    There was a time when I used to sit in silence and just... exist. The kind of silence that made the days feel longer than they were and I’d wish more than anything that I had something productive to do but...

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  • Culture

    Man’s best friend: Sabrina Carpenter’s lyrics, wit, and bite

    September 1, 2025 - By Sophie Stapley

    There was a time when Sabrina Carpenter was best known as a Disney Channel star. But in the past few years, she’s become something much bigger: a pop powerhouse who has TikTok in a chokehold, landed on the charts worldwide. But what stands out about our girl Sabrina is that…

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  • Oct 16, 2025 The pressure to be “always on”
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