Published t_uk08_2, guide_stude
Cover illustration by Johnny Ryan
 TIDBITS
SANTA CRUZ TOTE BAG
Everyone has been carting stuff around in these canvas tote bag things for ages now. The ones with things like “Hackney Council Recycling” on all get flogged on eBay to people who have never even been to London so that they can ...Read more |
  I DON’T WANNA GROW UP
An Ode to School and a “Meh” to University
It's weird how much you will come to appreciate school the very second you start uni. It happens to everyone. As the people carrier pulls away, leaving you in your tiny blank cell alone for the first time in your life, you will feel as vulnerable as a new born...Read more |
 DANCING WITH MYSELF
It’s All Fun When You Party With One
Hey, guess what? 99 per cent of the student nights that you will attend during your three years of “fun” will be so bad that they’ll make staying in and watching a Two Pints of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps marathon while you eat your own hands seem like a...Read more |
 ENGLISH ON THE CHEAP
A Tale of Darkest Oxford Street
Have you ever wondered who exactly are those hordes of people hanging around like a herd of sheep puffing on cigarettes all trussed up in scarves and hoodies on the streets of central London? Well, wonder no longer! We decided to go out and meet the kids who c...Read more |
 NIGERIAN UNIVERSITY
Getting Accepted Can Be Murder
You may think that putting up with the Frisbee society in the student union bar is a total hassle, but try going to Nigeria. The first Nigerian student fraternity was set up by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka in 1954, and Nigeria used to have the best higher e...Read more |
 STUDENT DOs AND DON’Ts
At university you will meet people like Hamish from the Outer Hebrides who’s in the big city studying agricultural engineering. Gaze in wonder as he meets his first ever Chinese person, then ties the photo to a carrier pigeon who flies it home to show Uncle Wu...Read more |
 BLEURGHHH
How to Be Ill If You’re a Student
In between all the partying, making friends and doing a miniscule amount of work you will have to do to scrape a pass in your degree, you will also have your time taken up with a thing called "being ill".
Once you are taken out of the sterile test tube ...Read more |
 STUDENT POSTERS
Are All Shit
The first day of university is an thrilling moment in your life. You leap into your new room full of excitement, with great plans to make this 8 by 6 foot cubby hole adequately portray your amazing personality. So everyone who comes in is totally immersed in w...Read more |
 SKIVING OFF
How to Do Nothing Useful For as Long as Possible
You turn up at university and you can either embrace three years of academia, higher learning and bettering yourself as a human being (i.e. the whole reason you are meant to be there) or you can just spend every night drinking pots of cut-price piss and preten...Read more |
 T-SHIIIIRTTTSSS!
They Keep You From Wandering Around Naked!
Our favourite cartoonist in the whole wide world ever Johnny Ryan made us these His 'N' Hers T-shirts to accompany this year's celebration of going to university for the first time ever to learn stuff that is really clever. You can buy these shirts by going to...Read more |
 BLESS BEATS & FACTION G
Foot Locker and adidas are exclusively releasing the new adidas Bounce. Available in Foot Locker's nationwide, these will give you an unfair advantage in the chase for style....Read more |
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