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Sociology - Why bother reading the classics?: Sociology is a relatively new subject (with origins in the work of Auguste Comte in the early years of the 19th Century), but it has grown hugely in a short space of time and is now a constantly updating agent of social commentary, measurement and... read more
Interview with an author: Nina de la Mer was born in Scotland and now lives in Brighton, England. In the third year of her undergrad degree she studied in Germany. It was this experience that inspired her to write her debut novel 4AM, the story of two young soldiers in the... read more
5 tips for reading big books: George Elliot's Middlemarch (904 pages), Herman Melville's Moby Dick (635 pages) , Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (1,225 pages), Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (904 pages) and, the big daddy of all of them, James Joyce's winding... read more

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A dolphin, a market, and a lighthouse; a day in Port Adelaide: One of the first places I visited when I came to Adelaide was Port Adelaide where I went for the day with some other international students from Flinders University. The international office at Flinders do lots of trips like these and discount them for... read more
In retrospect: some tips: It has been three months since I came to Adelaide, and in the dead of winter, no less. I was the newcomer then, and I really needed some basic tips on how to live life in a new country. Most of the tips I got were from international students who have... read more
Weathering it out: The Philippines is visited by an average of 20 typhoons during the rainy season. During bad monsoon rains, water would usually enter our house. I was pretty used to it because it happens almost every year since I was a kid. This year, however, is... read more