Hey everyone,

So this week, we are halfway through term! Honestly, I do not know where the times goes!

On the academic front, I have made my decisions on my coursework essay titles. For my module on international trade, I will be writing about Canada’s trading patterns – so what does Canada export and import and to who? This is all using the theories and models we have learnt so far, so this will be a good challenge in applying what I have been learning about. For my other two modules – public economics and elections, voters and political parties, i will be writing about voting behaviour. I find it really interesting how a subject, such as voting behvaiour, has been taken up by economics as well as politics. It shows just how interlinked and complementary the two subjects can be.

Outside of coursework and dissertation work, this weekend (15-17th February) is a big date in the swimming and water polo calendar. It is the British University and College Sport Long Course Championships. This is where we swim in an Olympic size (50m) swimming pool. I shall be swimming in the 50m and 100m breaststroke. I love it when weekends like this come around because it is a chance to put all that training to work and show the rest of the country what Lancaster can do.

Also, next week is the first ever Lancaster University Politics Society Ball. The executive committee and I are so excited about this because it has been an aspiration of the society for some time, and who doesn’t love the chance to get glamourous for the evening?

That’s about it for my mid-term update. Hope everything is going well for you all.

Speak soon,

Orla.

Hey guys,

Hope everything is going great! Times flies by here in Lancaster. I cannot believe it is week 5 already, I have been so busy I just realised we are halfway through the term. There is quite a lot of work to be done: this is usually the time when I start my essays, thinking about which questions I am going to answer and how. I don’t have an essay for Economics, just another presentation on Education and student achievement. In my Africa module, I am torn between writing about the relationship between the instance of Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Politics of Aid in the continent, or about the role that contemporary China is playing in the development Sub-Saharan region. Finally, for my Continental Philosophy module, my essay will be about Nietzsche’s method in his Genealogy of Morals, I think I can write quite a lot about it.

At the same time, we recently had elections in the Philosophy Society and I got elected again to be on the exec. This means that I will have to help the new members coordinate the events and start thinking about some new things we could do. I have a couple of ideas that I’m really excited for, so I hope they work out in the end!

 

By the way, don’t forget we have another Visit Day this Saturday, I’d encourage you to come see Lancaster and get a taste of life around here (I just hope it won’t rain). See you guys around!

Guillermo