@Lucywwatson
Durham grad here!! was stood behind a guy in Tesco who asked for ‘working class stamps’ meaning second class. cashier and I shared a look of sheer mortification
Literally pricing out working class students. Maximum student loan is now £9978, leaving £822 to live on. Durham don’t allow you a job for more than 12 hours a week if I remember. Students with additional needs who require an en suite bathroom will need to pay more.
Breaking News:
Durham University College accommodation costs have risen by 10.3% for 2023-2024.
A standard catered room with a shared bathroom will now cost £9156 for a 39 week contract, with students paying £234.77 per week.
was literally just vibing in trinity hall and someone on a punt shouted ‘we loved you on university challenge’ i am never ever going to get used to this
I’ve had a few people (including an email?!) ask me recently about that third of a day question on university challenge, so thought I’d give the whole process!!
as a kid i thought the saturday between good friday and easter sunday was like the christian equivalent of the purge. like it's the one day when jesus was dead, so you can kinda do what you want because he won't see
it’s
#WomenInScience
day!!
i’m a particle physics PhD student at Edinburgh, working on neutrino interactions and cross sections. last year I wrote my master’s thesis on dark matter phenomenology :))
this year’s
#UniversityChallenge
result was the hardest secret I’ve ever had to keep!! beyond proud of the (grandkids) team. uc, and those who make it, can only be described as wonderful. long may it last.
it is, in fact, coming home xo
@TheVampsJames
if Taylor Swift was a man people would happily dislike her in peace, or at least acknowledge that whilst her music isn't for them, she's extremely talented. if you think Taylor is a bad musician skillwise you need to unpack some sexism within you
This library has decided to make their pictogram for ‘woman’ and remove the reductionist stereotype that women only wear dresses and skirts. But this is what they’ve come up with:
Captain’s log - day 405 since we found out we were going to be on University Challenge. I have met three of the most intelligent people I’ll ever know and we have all had the absolute best time. Endlessly, endlessly proud of
@harryregan3
,
@ThomasBanbury
,
@charlieh108
and Tom W.
people are attributing my hand gesture to a public school education. I'm dead proud to be state-comp educated, from a working class family, raised by a single mum. will take a lot but please don't lie about where I came from
can't believe i read at an open mic tonight and introduced one of my poems by describing it as 'good vibes' and asking the audience if they'd ever watched Hannibal
Durham SU have finally banned the society that joked about rape, called women wh*res, described Palestinians as second class citizens, and wanted to ‘improve on Nazi genocide’, so it’s a win for Human Decency
my cat Blossom passed away peacefully today aged nineteen and so so loved. we were kids together. for the first time in my life i don’t have any cats, so please give yours some love from me xo
it’s literally becoming impossible for working class students to live in college. maximum maintenance loan is just over 8k, and esp given Durham culture, there’s a lot more expenditure than just your room. this is literally saying don’t come if you’re poor
The cost of a standard catered room will be over £8000 for the first time under changes for the 2022/2023 academic year. While, in previous years, the University sent an email to all students about such increases, no such communications have been issued this year.
thank you to all who watched us tonight!! v close game, Edinburgh were brilliant and a lovely team ❤️
(faqs: jumper is from monki and i made my earrings by putting a danish 2 kroner coin on a hoop :) )
being a physicist with creative hobbies is weird because my search history is:
'unfolding in particle physics'
'root peak finding code'
'quiche line drawing'