By Rachel Garvey Do you know that feeling when you wake up on a Monday morning, the warmth and familiarity of your bed begging you to stay and to not disrupt the warmth that radiates under the covers? It’s a good feeling, but then once slip into the half awake and half-asleep stage your mind wanders a little to that pending essay that is due in a couple of days. Before you … [Read more...] about Opinion: The library versus home
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Opinion: When should you quit your job?
By Rachel Garvey As students, we are well accustomed to our mothers going on about earning money to invest in the future. Yes mother, I’m aware by now, thanks for the daily reminders. There are some jobs we will always remember, and we gain knowledge of the new skills we learned from them, but the jobs that we don’t want to remember are ones that we must learn from. To … [Read more...] about Opinion: When should you quit your job?
‘You’ need to watch it
By Rachel Garvey So, we have all heard of Netflix, right? Of course we have, we are basically glued to it after college hours. I am personally stuck to it almost every day, and when I watch a movie or series that has me hooked from the first few minutes, I tell everyone about it. My motto is: “If I annoy them enough about it, then they’ll have to watch it.” Netflix has … [Read more...] about ‘You’ need to watch it
All smiles at the Teddy Bear Hospital in NUIG
By Rachel Garvey It’s that time of year again! NUI Galway’s Sláinte Society, along with medical, healthcare, and science students helped to treat sick teddy bears. On 17 - 18 January, NUI Galway hosted its 14th Teddy Bear Hospital, which took place in the Bailey Allen Hall. Over 1,200 children from primary schools across Galway were welcomed in with open arms to treat the … [Read more...] about All smiles at the Teddy Bear Hospital in NUIG
Opinion: I promise, yeah right!
By Rachel Garvey As we welcome in the New Year of 2019, we also embrace our New Year's Resolutions with hesitant open arms. Semester two is also upon us and with that comes the commitment to study and work harder, but do we really? We always promise ourselves every year that we will stick to our New Year’s Resolutions but before we know it, we welcome our bad habits back … [Read more...] about Opinion: I promise, yeah right!