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A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
Laura Reynolds looks at the habits of exam-weary students
The last few weeks before the end of term are always a bit of a slog. Exams, essays, and general stresses abound, coupled with the knowledge that money is tight and the next loan installment is some way off. Suddenly that shopping spree in week one seems like slightly less of a good idea. Especially now the cupboards are starting to look a bit bare.
I’m fortunate in that my mum, terrified by tales of starving students suffering from malnutrition and/or scurvy, marches off to Asda at the start of each term and stocks me up on the basics. Which is, of course, lovely. But the bounty can’t last forever. At about this time every term, I’m confronted by the unpleasant knowledge that the freezer is looking woefully empty, and I’m going to have to scavenge together a meal from something rather less appetising.
It’s food, yes, but it’s food that you’d really rather not eat. Beans are always a good example. Dependable and quick, they’re fine to eat when necessary, but aren’t really all that exciting. Until around week eight. Suddenly everything else has gone and you’re faced with the possibility of consuming beans on toast for days on end, the monotony briefly broken up by replacing the bread with a sneaky jacket potato. Oh the joy.
Pasta is another one. Yes, we all enjoy a nice plate of spaghetti bolognese or carbonara, but the end-of-term student is often forced to resort to rather more exotic combinations. An old friend once confessed to having eaten pasta with ketchup for a whole week before finally giving in and dipping into his overdraft to buy some sausages.
But what’s the solution, you cry? Sadly, I don’t think there is one. Of course, it must be possible to be more organised, to space out the nice food with more boring equivalents so that it lasts the full ten weeks. Though that really does seem like a lot of effort and who has the time? Pasta and pilchards it is...
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