The latest group of student bloggers are now live

The blogosphere will have some new and interesting voices this month, as our latest group of student bloggers pen their first posts.

Now in its fourth year, the blogs collective aims are to give an insight into what life is really like at Imperial – whether that’s being thrown around at Judo Club, trying new foods or wandering round London taking random photos.

There will be nine students blogging for the first time (Liam, Dehydys, Jonny, Fi, Ryan, Wouter, Traci, Rachel and Hyojoo) while three students have decided to carry on from previous years (Bernadeta, Aislinn and Richard).

We caught up with a couple of the bloggers and asked them why they wanted to share their musings with the world, what they hoped to get from it and what we might expect from their posts.

Bernadeta (second year, BSc Microbiology): “I just feel like I sometimes have something to say and I like the idea that you can share things with other people. I’m sort of a knowledge freak, and I feel the day is wasted if you don’t find out anything new, so I’m going to do something like a fact of the day.”

Fi (second year, MBBS): “I’ve been writing for years; I did a gap year in Israel teaching underprivileged children and set up an English-speaking newspaper, so it seemed a natural thing to do. Some of my friends do some really interesting things, like ice skating at 04.00 in the morning, so I’d like to do a day-inthe- life type thing.”

Aislinn (third year, BSc Bioengineering): “I studied English until I started at Imperial, and I didn’t want to let that go, so I thought a good way to keep that up would be to write a blog. I also figured if you did your own private blog you’re not going to get many hits, and I like attention! Given that I've been blogging since first year, it's really good to see all the things I’ve done since and how I was feeling at the time. In first year I was talking about moving from Ireland, it was all exciting with the different things I was doing. Then last year it was more academic - it was crazy and very intense."

Jonny (MSc, Public Heatlh): “I did a cycling tour in the summer and I was doing a blog for that, so I thought I’d take it a step further really. It’s a release from academic writing when you’ve got this outlet and it’s just a fun way to tell stories.”

For the student blogs home page, visit: //www3.imperial.ac.uk/campus_life/studentblogs