Universities are Confusing!

Recently my sixth form attended a UCAS event to find out all about what universities and other opportunities are out there for us after we finish compulsory education. For me personally, it was basically an exercise of picking up prospectuses so you don't have to sign up for emails from the universities. If you didn't know already, I want to study Geography at university in two academic years time, preferably to do with climate change and with a year abroad so that I can keep my Spanish up. The trouble is, most universities do Geography, and all the degrees are very similar.

Playlist Live 2014 (and why I want to be there!)

¡Hola! This weekend will be the annual Florida YouTube conference that is Playlist Live, and I'm not gonna lie, I wish I was there - much better than the world of mocks and coursework deadlines that I live in now. Most of YouTube's 'most subscribed' will be there, including Zoella, the Holy Trinity (Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart), Miranda Sings and Charles and Alli Trippy.

We Could See the Northern Lights!

This post was ready in time, I just forgot to click publish, sorry!

On the 28th February, many Brits could see the Northern Lights in Scotland and surprisingly England and Wales too! I could go all cultural on you about their history and whatever, but that's Tess' job and it's a science post this week. Did you know, the Northern Lights' Latin name, Aurora Borealis, is as it is because Aurora was the goddess of dawn (ie. red skies), and borealis meant northerly?

"The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable."

 - Phillip Pullman, The Northern Lights

A Travel Guide to Segovia, Spain

Last week, I went to Segovia, a smallish city about an hour north-west of Madrid, and these are some of my favourite places to go there (in no particular order).

1. El Acueducto (The aqueduct, for those of you who don't speak Spanish). Segovia's most famous landmark is probably the Roman aqueduct that spans the Plaza de Artillería. It was built in the 1st century AD and originally stretched all the way from the mountains of the Sistema Central. It's magnificent and the fact that the stones are held together by nothing but gravity and their own pressure makes this even more impressive.