With the train wreck that is 2016 coming to an end, it can be easy to lose motivation in college. As more of your favourite celebrities die off, and world politics descend to pre-war levels, everyone is feeling dispirited. You’re tired, the mice are moving into your house, and you’ve been fending for yourself for
Ah, Maynooth Christmas Day. A most special time of year, a most intimidating time of year, it’s a highlight of many Maynooth students’ calendars. A day long period of drinking, with scaldy gaffe seshes, the SU being done up for Christmas and a chance to see many of the well-known figures on campus getting hammered.
In last week’s Editor’s Note the assault on Kym Owens, a first year student in Maynooth University was mentioned. This assault happened to Kym on her way home at around seven o’clock on a Sunday evening. This event has shocked not only Maynooth but the whole of Ireland and has made many of us aware
Dear Anon, I can’t seem to ever be on time with anything in college, I’m always behind even with really important stuff, help! Dear Help! 1. Schedule the event into your diary. If you have everything written down and you know when you need to be in a specific place chances are you wont find
2016 has been a truly awful year. It’s a constant news cycle of horrific world events, from the deaths of much loved celebrities (is anyone over David Bowie yet?), to a US election that divided the world a terrifying amount, to mistreated puppies being smuggled through Dublin port. It seems pretty bleak. However, there is
Dear Anonymous, I seem to be lost in terms of what I want to do. I don’t even know if I’m doing the right course. I don’t even know if I should be in college. I’m starting to panic. Dear Confused, Take a deep breath! 5 seconds inhale, 5 seconds exhale, repeat for a minute.
What signifies the start of the Christmas season? The lights on Grafton Street being turned on? Hearing ‘Fairy-Tale of New York’ on the radio? Seeing a Christmas tree lit up in someone’s sitting room? Well for many people, it’s the first time they see a Christmas ad. No, not one of those generic and regurgitated
Many of you reading may have noticed (I know I did on fresher’s week) that there is more than one location in Maynooth University that goes by the name Callan. For those curious enough to wonder why, I attempt in this article to describe the importance of this name in Maynooth University’s history and also
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single county GAA player, with road frontage, must be in want of a girlfriend. However little known the feelings or views of such a county player may be on his first entering a parish, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the locals, that
Ah yes, a piece of news many of us may already be familiar with – Radiohead are coming to Ireland in June 2017, playing a gig in the 3 Arena. With shared posts and people desperately trying to get tickets littering our newsfeeds, is this hype justified? To those of you who are only familiar
Hobbies, some love them, some would rather be in bed than keep one up. Personally, my hobby is writing. I write all the time. It’s a great procrastination tool. I’ll tell myself that writing is a lot more fun than; editing that video or cleaning and I’ll believe it. Anything got to do with a
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” Ralph Waldo Emerson. College is a great time to discover more about who we are as a person and to develop new interests, like when I started writing these articles I started just to
By now, you’re all settling into college, whether that be for the first time or not. Studying (or not studying), seshing (or not), and most importantly meeting new people to bounce off, to learn and grow with. Some of the people you meet might even influence your whole life, friends will drift in and out,
Dear Anonymous, I am a first year in Maynooth, studying English, History, and Anthropology. The Thursday before mid-term, my friends and I went out to the Roost. We all dressed up and had a couple of drinks before going into the club. In the club we had so much fun dancing and I really enjoyed
Awful, wasn’t it? After a rather bleak start to the college year, you really needed that midterm break. So far this semester you have lost the deposit on your house, your bike and your virginity. Two of which were stolen. I’ll let you make up your own mind on that one. You were looking forward
If you’re like me, marathoning Keeping Up with the Kardashians gives you a terrible vocal fry and causes you to be a bit brattier immediately after. However, this show has a lot of value and there are some serious pros to watching it. This family delivers some serious life lessons: 1: How to react
As we return to campus after a restful, and hopefully productive, study week we now enter the month of November – a time of remembrance for those who have passed. Not to be too morbid but several people have died on this very campus. So if you didn’t get your fair share of creepy ghost
Belle, from Beauty and the Beast Before the new live action remake comes out and Emma Watson raises the bar for all of us, enjoy Belle in her cartoon state. Although originally a fairy tale, Belle is more commonly known for the classic Disney adaptation. The film is instantly recognisable, and if the chance for
On Wednesday October 19th education took to the streets. Over 550 Maynoothians all dressed in blue travelled to Dublin city to rally in protest against the increase of student fees. They were joined by thousands of students from all over the country from colleges in Dublin, Galway, Sligo, Carlow, Waterford, Limerick and Cork. The crowd
They may be dusty, obscure and somewhat out of time, but for some reason, classic literature is still considered one of the highest art forms. There may be a tendency to brand all of it as worthless, because it has been written by “dead white men”, yet these books have endured, and many of their
