While awaiting my UCAS confirmation for whether I had procured a place at this illustrious school I happened to spend a term at Murdoch University in Australia. University in Australia, amazingly different than university here, actually embodies Australia’s greatest cliché as a laid back, sunny and ‘no-worries-mate’ country. At Murdoch there was little expectation that [...]
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LSE’s mental health
One in four people will suffer from dandruff. One in three people, in their lifetime, will suffer from poor mental health. Yet there seems to be more awareness and less stigma surrounding dandruff than mental health issues. The vast majority of people could not describe the symptoms of depression, never mind understand the experience of [...]
Crowdsource Climate: A Thinking Crowd for a Safer Planet
As we saw in Copenhagen last year, the failure of our governments to reach an agreement on how best to distribute the costs of fighting climate change has brought international negotiations to a standstill. It would be mistaken, however, for anyone to believe that governments bear sole responsibility for our collective paralysis. Governments, after all, [...]
Talk about free food
Rakshana usually leaves Houghton Street at around 1.30PM after emptying his cart of vegetarian food, but today he ended up staying on Houghton Street for much longer than he normally would. During our interview, numerous LSE students passed by asking if he was still giving out food, many of whom were his friends. As you may [...]
Students versus stereotypes
The world of business is primed for change. Social entrepreneurs represent a new breed of business men and women who aim to bring sustainable solutions to answer social needs. The believe they can make a change through revolutionizing the way we do business. It appears that many of us here at the LSE believe the [...]
A top the spiral stairs
It is a snug, busy-looking place, Alpha Books is – ‘the size of three broom cupboards’, as its owner, Simon, fondly describes it. Tottering, teetering stacks of books vie with one another for space: fact elbows fiction, novels jostle against fat economic theory textbooks. Outside, three sturdy carts of paperbacks seem to keep watch over [...]
The next Bill Gates?
It is a question we all ask ourselves, one that flits through each of our minds at some point in our lives, ‘Can I be the next Bill Gates?’. It is a question that we think about, smile about, daydream about, but ultimately forget about – for it is one of those unattainable aspirations that [...]
Oh Lord! Phillips
An interview with the President of the Supreme Court My companion for the interview told me afterward that the man who journeyed with us on the lift up to Lord Phillips’ office was Justice Lord Mance – such is the intimacy of the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The nation’s final court of appeal [...]
Time out at LSE
You can’t eat food in the library. Just you try. Crunch of a cracker and one of the library’s security personnel will appear so quickly you will begin to believe that apparations, Harry-Potter syle, must indeed exist. Said black-suited, black-booted gentleman will then proceed to expound upon the demerits of eating in a space as [...]
A family affair
I always saw my brother in a different light before I came to the LSE. We hardly ever had anything in common; I have always been very laid back in comparison to him. There had always been a rivalry between us, him being the only son, and has always been pampered by our mother. Little [...]
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