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Tagged: New year’s resolution

Our New Year’s resolutions

6 January 2016
Posted under: Blogs Archive, Featured, Postgraduate

We asked our bloggers to tell us their New Year’s resolutions, and here’s what they had to say! Lauren Bishop My resolutions are not so much New Year’s ones as on-going things I want to achieve: doing well in my Master’s, getting super fit on my bike, performing well in my job and generally being… Read more » about Our New Year’s resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

6 January 2015
Posted under: Blogs Archive, Postgraduate

Now that they’re back into the swing of studying, our Postgraduate bloggers tell us their New Year’s resolutions for 2015… Join in the conversation and comment below with your 2015 plans! Completing my Masters is obviously one! I’m also a member at Stokewood leisure centre in Winton and plan to go there more often in… Read more » about New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

6 January 2015
Posted under: Blogs Archive, Undergraduate

Now that they’re back into the swing of studying, our Undergraduate bloggers tell us their New Year’s resolutions for 2015… Join in the conversation and comment below with your 2015 plans! My New Year’s resolution is to try and be more positive! I’m quite grumpy and often struggle to see the good in situations, so… Read more » about New Year’s Resolutions

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