WARNING: this post has SPOILERS. If you haven’t watched Black Mirror’s latest instalment, Black Museum, go and watch it before reading this, or don’t. Either way, here be spoilers, so on your own head be it. Also, I realise there are already articles out there saying pretty much the same as this one, but I…
Category: Blog
Disconnect Yourself…And Connect
DISCLAIMER: I totally see the irony or hypocrisy of getting this message through to people via social media. I’m justifying it with the thought that they are good for some thing, and aren’t all bad… In the UK, 88% of people think that loneliness is a problem, and although it might seem hard to define,…
Finding a Path
Does the sheer possibility of life ever make itself very obvious? It might be the naïveté of being young but this happened to me upon leaving university. In some ways it was very exciting: it felt like there are a million paths to take, as well as unmade paths that have to somehow be realised,…
Introduction Part II
Why I Want to Write a Blog My initial expectation of the university system as a program of education was that it would narrow my interests, closing down avenues of possibility, whilst providing me with evermore detailed maps of my ‘chosen path’. This also seemed reasonable given the extent to which universities have become the…
Introduction Part I
A Process of ‘De-Urbanisation’ I failed to get into my desired university. During the last two years of school, I invested my whole being into gaining a place at Cambridge to read Music. I was denied access on all fronts. The college I applied for (I can’t even remember what it was called now) rejected…
Faith in the Road 