Strike and Snow!

You can't escape it. I'm sure you've read it for yourself in the news, but the majority of university lecturers are currently on strike due to changes in their pension.

Some of my friends have been massively affected by these strikes! One of my friends who studies politics at my university has lost out on around four weeks of teaching. They have stated there will be some amendments to the end-of-year examinations to cater for this loss, but he has still had to pay for nothing for the past month!

Caption says it all really - bored students with their lecturers on strike have nothing better to do than try to score their teabag in a cup.

For us medical students, we weren't affected! We had one lecture on diet and nutrition which was cancelled, but the majority of our lectures and tutorials are delivered by actual NHS doctors. Therefore, they have the NHS pension so are not affected by the striking conducted by university lecturers across the UK.

But we were affected by the Beast from East! The university deemed it unsafe for students and staff to attend university so it closed its facilities. I lost out on a tutorial and a lecture, but I had managed to get to my placement in the hospital that morning!

I loved the university's response to the snow... they shut the university for the safety of the students. But the students retaliate by sledging down the steep hills in the uni accommodation on just trays from the catering cafe or recycling bin lids. I feel to be honest that closing the university put our safety at risk!

There was a massive bread crisis in all of our local grocery shops - how on earth will we have toast in the morning?!

Snow settled all over the university accommodation and the city. It made waiting for buses (if they ever arrived) harder when the benches are covered in snow. The Beast from the East forced you to buy that cappuccino from the cafe, otherwise you'd freeze to death!