It feels so strange! You’ve spent a year living and studying in a foreign country, away from your friends and family and now you’re back, exactly where it all began. What do you do with yourself now?… by Ella Hillyard People react to coming home from a year abroad differently – some people find it […]
Managing Rejection and Disappointment: The Student Experience
It’s surprising how common rejection and disappointment can be to student life. This can happen with jobs, grades, extracurricular activities, or even taking into account the effects of the pandemic. Read this post for practical tips for combating rejection in student life. Recently, my applications for summer internships have been met with a constant stream […]
How to ace your Dissertation Presentation
Nervous about your dissertation presentation? You’re not alone! As if writing a dissertation wasn’t enough of a task, it seems almost cruel that you have to do a presentation for it as well. For many people, oral presentations (or public speaking in general) can be really stressful experiences. However, the vast majority of degrees require […]
University’s New Study Skill: Online Group Work
In a world where isolation has now become the norm, we’re all spending most of our day working independently. Some of us are embracing the distraction-free study time to concentrate on our own work, whereas others are missing the social interaction of sitting on floor two with friends, discussing our weekends while working on a […]
How can the Library’s Online Courses help you with your study and assignments?
By now (end of Term 1) you are probably familiar with finding your way around the Library, whether we are talking about the physical building or the Library’s online catalogue. But did you know the Library has its own collection of online courses? These were designed to equip students with key study skills, such as […]
Top Tips for using the Library remotely
Writing a ‘middle-length’ Master’s Essay
You may have heard a lot about how to write a long dissertation (10,000 words or above). You may also be familiar with writing short essays (2,000-4,000) where being concise is key. But what about those ‘middle-length’ essays that are too-short for any major analysis but too big for just a quick peruse into a […]
Don’t waste your summer away: How you can make the most of your summer today! (Part 1)
After a year’s worth of exams, assignments and stress, it’s really nice to be able to wind down for a while. However, many students get too adjusted to summer life and find the transition back to uni very difficult! This two-part series aims to provide some suggestions on how to have a productive summer, whilst […]
Top tips on how to keep your belongings safe
Belongings are precious as some have sentimental value, whilst others carry financial value. We do our best to look after what is important to us, especially if it means preventing our valuables from being stolen. However, there is no need to go and frantically put chains around them like in the photo! In this blog, […]
How to explain your degree to someone who has never studied it
‘So, what do you study?’ You’ve been asked it a thousand and one times, but you’ve somehow never managed to find the perfect answer. Say your degree title and you risk being stereotyped into the box that people associate that subject with. Go into too much detail and you’re bound to lose them. Make it […]
Digital Discussions: Leading Online Seminars
Leading a seminar can be a scary prospect at the best of times, but dealing with the difficulties of online learning can make it even harder. Whether your session is graded or not, piloting an hour or two of learning is an intimidating task, but there are preparations you can make to ensure success. This […]
Inside The Library’s Labyrinth #4 -Don’t Googlewhack . . . Google Scholar!
This week’s highlighted resource is Google Scholar. Possibly a familiar one to many but, nevertheless, this database for academic and scholarly work is a powerful tool for researcher’s. In 2005, UK comedian Dave Gorman published a best-selling book called ‘Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure.’ A Googlewhack is a contest for finding a Google search query consisting of […]
Inside the Library’s Labyrinth #6 – Finding the needle in the Haystack
This week’s highlighted resource is the second in a group of four aimed primarily at humanities researchers. It is the Readex AllSearch gateway to primary resources and can be accessed here . Finding a needle in a haystack is a familiar saying defined by the Cambridge dictionary as ‘something that is impossible or extremely difficult […]
Top 3 Rarest PS2 PAL Games to Revisit Today
As a longstanding fan of PlayStation 2 games, you’re well aware of some cool titles that were released specifically for the PAL region. And a good many of these titles were criminally expensive back in the day and even today, they can set you back a pretty penny. Luckily for you, you won’t need to […]
How our pawsome companions can help us nurture our inner child
An English author and the Winnie the Pooh’s creator Alan Alexander Milne said: “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.” So, what it is that we could learn from them if we observed and listened more carefully? And how one curious cat – our campus buddy Rolf – captured the heart […]
Inside the Library’s Labyrinth #7 – The Power of Three
This week’s highlighted resource is Archives Direct which comprises three separate primary resource databases that contain a wide range of documents, maps, newspapers and significant people profiles which can be accessed here. If you want somebody to remember your point or phrase or information, then put it in three separate parts. For as long as […]
Eat happy, sleep happy, study happy: how to maintain a healthy lifestyle this exam season
Exam season. It’s a two-word phrase that calls to mind so many negative thoughts. Cramming, all-nighters, caffeine overdoses and stress-eating are common habits of students in the lead-up to exams. However, these patterns of stress can put our bodies and minds under a lot of pressure, leading to burnouts, depressive states and even illness. Maintaining […]
D/deaf Awareness Week 2021- Software to support your studies
This week is Deaf Awareness Week (3rd– 9th May), and to mark the week we are bringing together some of the freely available software and apps available to staff and students at Warwick which can support anyone who is D/deaf or hard of hearing. You can find out more about D/deaf awareness by reading the […]