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Nine Years Later, I Finally Received My Hogwarts Letter
It was my second day as a HuffPo intern. Sat at my muggle desk and working on my muggle tasks, I noticed an owl flutter past the window with a letter clutched in its beak. An owl?! During day time?! In...
View Article17 Things About The Secret Life Of Students We Know To Be True
The secret life of students may be an eye-opener for some, but for others it'll be a case of been there, done that, got the t-shirt. The Channel 4 programme follows the life of three students at...
View ArticleArizona State University Is Giving Female Students Extra Marks For Not...
A university professor in the US is giving female students extra marks for not shaving - and males extra marks for shaving from the neck down. Breanne Fahs, a professor of women and gender students at...
View ArticleGalloway Has Got It Right: Just Say Naw
For someone who has a vast interest in politics and now possesses a BA in Social Sciences, I still do not know why I feel I have done nothing with politics, apart from voting in elections when I first...
View ArticleWhat I Learned From Visiting Reach Academy Feltham
As I alluded to in my previous article, I'm concerned that we are using the wrong models as benchmarks of excellent education. I'm certain, however, that recent visitors Boris Johnson and Michael Gove...
View ArticleKatie Hopkins; the Worst of Middle Class Britain
Time and time again, Britain's favourite rent-a-gob Katie Hopkins stirs up controversy by spewing bile on daytime TV or on her Twitter feed. Hopkins can't be overly committed to her business; Katie...
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What Is a Global Standard Oo Beauty
Another photoshop-focused article has been making the rounds on the internet, but rather than bashing Western-Standards of beauty, this one is a little different. Artist Esher Honig had a photo of...
View ArticleThree Best Pieces of Advice for Anyone of Any Age
This Sunday, HuffPost UK celebrates its third birthday, and rather than ask for piles of presents, we asked some of our favourite bloggers to gift us with their three best pieces of advice. HuffPost...
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I Don't Get the #Selfie Phenomenon
I just don't get it. Shouldn't you be ashamed of your vanity? Your need to document everything with your face popping into the picture from various (usually unappealing) angles? Seriously. Everything....
View ArticleMurder Investigation Launched After Body Of Newcastle Student James Steen...
A murder investigation has been launched after a 23-year-old university student was found dead. Warwickshire Police said they have arrested three men on suspicion of murder after the body of Newcastle...
View ArticleInquest Into Death Of Horatio Chapple Eton Schoolboy, Dragged From Tent And...
The mother of a schoolboy killed by a polar bear "would not have let him go" on the Arctic expedition without believing he would be properly protected, an inquest heard. Horatio Chapple, 17, was on an...
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When Impact Is More Important Than Invention
*Rebekah Scheuerle [2013] is doing a PhD in Chemical Engineering. This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the Saving Lives at Birth partners, JustMilk, or the University of Cambridge....
View ArticleLearning a Foreign Language: The Comfort Zone
It may not seem so, but learning a foreign language is a pretty unsettling event - at least from a psychological point of view. I heard somebody say some time ago that she could not even imagine...
View ArticleThe Secret Life of Students: Why Freshers Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
I'm a big fan of shit documentaries. Gypsy weddings, dogging tales, and the man with two tonne testicles - I live for this sort of sub-standard rubbish. Most of my best procrastination happens to the...
View ArticleThe Northeastern Institute of Cannabis: The School Where You Can Go And Study...
It sounds like a stoner's paradise - a new school devoted to studying weed is to open later this year in the US, and will teach its students how to grow the drug. Founded by Mickey Martin, a long time...
View ArticleThe Private School Epidemic?
Independent schools across the United Kingdom are seeing a deadly rise of mental health problem in their pupils. Private schools full of academic excellence or distressed teens with added pressure to...
View ArticleThe Student Problem: Ethical Fashion
Unethically-produced clothing: it's a company's responsibility to refuse to sell it and the consumer's responsibility not to buy it. Right? Theoretically yes. But in practice, there are thousands of...
View ArticleWater Slide Tester To Harry Potter Guide: Are These The Best Summer Jobs In...
Forgot your waitressing, babysitting or sales assistant-ing, from water slide testers, to harry potter guides and professional sun cream appliers (yes, really), these may just be the best summer jobs...
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Horatio Chapple Death: Trip Leader Tried To Gauge Out Eyes Of Polar Bear...
WARNING: Some readers may find the image in this article distressing The trip leader of an expedition in which a 17-year-old boy was mauled to death by a polar bear has told an inquest how he tried to...
View ArticleStrip Club Show Palace Offers Private Study Rooms For Students In New York...
If you struggle to concentrate in the library, or you find yourself getting distracted at home, then why not try out a new kind of study room - in a strip club. Show Palace, a strip club in Queens, New...
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