Posts Tagged ‘Richard Peluso’

Surviving out of home – how to avoid becoming a hobo

Surviving out of home – how to avoid becoming a hobo

So, you’ve decided to move out of home. Whether it was because of work/study commitments, family issues or you’ve just decided to grow up – you’ve chosen to leave the nest. Good for you! Living on your own can give you a great sense of satisfaction as you must rely on yourself to survive, and [...]

Pub Crawls – What You Need To Know

Pub Crawls – What You Need To Know

If you’re a fresh young university student, you will soon get acquainted with the term ‘pub crawl’. Most uni faculties and sub-strands (e.g. journalism, psychology, nutrition etc.) organise these social events once or twice a year as a way to meet new people and have some fun. This is a lie. The sole objective is [...]

Avoiding the Beast that is Procrastination

Avoiding the Beast that is Procrastination

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him “Gamblor,” and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws! -Homer Simpson A great quote from a great show. If I may borrow such fantastic writing and adapt it to my life, there is another fearsome monster [...]

The Trials and Tribulations of Group Work

The Trials and Tribulations of Group Work

I’m sitting in the packed tutorial room. The tutor whose name I have already forgotten is droning on about the outline of a subject I don’t even know whether I should be enrolled in. I take a quick glance around the room…to a sea of faces I’ve never met. There are a few people sitting [...]

Are You Cool Enough to go to University?

Are You Cool Enough to go to University?

The concept of being ‘cool’ is an interesting one. How does one become cool? How is this coolness maintained? Is being cool hereditary? Can coolness be transmitted virally? Many of these are questions for another time. If you are reading this, it is possible that you are concerned about your own coolness, and whether you [...]