Using my full name online is something that I have always struggled with. On the one hand, I know it can help you look professional and maintain a personal brand, but on the other hand I don’t want strangers stalking me. Now that I’m twenty-one,…
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Becoming Confident
Confident is a word that I would never use to describe myself. Throughout secondary school, I was shy and reserved, and disliked talking to new people and working in groups. After secondary school I went to college, partially because my studies led me in that…
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5 Things You Shouldn’t Say to People Who Aren’t Morning People
I am not a morning person. At all. I loathe setting my alarm, and I could happily sleep in until gone midday if you let me. As a non-morning person, there are many things I’ve heard in my life about the early hours of the…
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The Ever-Increasing Standards of Blogging
When I first started blogging, I posted whatever I felt like, whenever I felt like. I’d say for the most part that hasn’t changed, but my mindset towards blogging certainly has. In the early days, the 20 followers I accumulated were the best 20 people…
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Thoughts on Body Image
Body image is a sensitive topic; it always has been and probably always will be. While scrolling Facebook the other day I saw the picture below and it made me feel a little uncomfortable. It also inspired me to write a blog post on the…
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Is Social Media Ruining Your Life?
I recently wrote an essay for university on how new media has changed the way in which we view time and space in comparison with how we used to. Whilst I had to stick to a word count and make sure what I was writing…
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London Living
London is not much different to any other city I’ve visited, but it’s definitely somewhere I am happy to call home. To be comfortable living anywhere it’s obviously quite a good idea to try and get to know the area as well as possible, but…
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Friendship at University
Image credit As a first year I can’t say that at the end of my three years at uni I’ll still have these opinions, but I do know that a lot of things change when it comes to friendship. I know that my parents are…
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Why I Don’t Buy Magazines
I don’t read an awful lot of magazines, and delving into them whenever I’m at the hairdressers reminds me why. Part of my A-Level Media Studies course involved looking into the construction of magazines and how certain groups were represented. Women are sexualised pretty much…
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