If you’ve been a student in Edinburgh for any length of time, you’re no stranger to strikes. The 2022/23 academic year saw students being welcomed into the city by a 12-day bin strike around the time of the Fringe festival. In October, the Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre was ‘reclaimed’ by a group of students to stand against the “colonial capitalist and heterosexist institutions at the root of global oppression.” In May 2022, the UCU had announced a marking boycott which was l

Living in Pollock was the closest thing to having a collegiate experience in student accommodation. You live in a bubble with first-years (mostly) from around the world, go to meals at a fixed time, are snobby about your house when you secretly love another one. PC - Ibadat Gill When I applied to Pollock, that experience was definitely on my mind, but so was the fact that I didn’t know if I’d have time to cook in my first year (and that I didn’t actually know how to cook. Ye

There’s something that sets student accommodation apart from any other accommodations - the vibe, the common rooms, the seemingly-endless parties (pardon me, gaffs), the horde of clueless first-years. Whether you stay in uni or private student accommodation, catered or self-catered, odds are you will end up having strong opinions about your first-year housing - one way or another. Most student accommodations have a flat system and all of them, apart from Pollock, are self-ca