Caitlin Taylor joined the Tab Exeter in 2023 as a third year English BA student. She is currently a student contributor to the Tab Exeter
Caitlin studies English and is in her final year at the University of Exeter. She takes English, Film, Drama, Poetry, Creative Writing and Philosophy modules
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Who doesn’t want a hamster for Christmas?
We spotted the Swifties a mile away
Exe-mas came early
This comes as one student reported being asked for nudes in return for TimePiece tickets
Does Gen Z know anyone else but GK Barry?
No one is safe from the bean bandits…
‘It’s turning into The Handmaid’s Tale’
1. The 3am fire alarm
10. Tried to make fingerless gloves fashionable
Here’s five ways to fight the winter blues
Uni halls changes you
If these aren’t shocking, you need to touch grass
If you’ve seen any of these, you deserve free therapy
The doctors failed to properly assess the patient’s injuries, according to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
Don’t take the ‘silly fresh’ title too literally
Northern students, look away
The show will be airing on Monday 23rd September
Come along to our open meeting on 23rd September at 6pm at The Ram
Sean would definitely be a chicken and sweetcorn sandwich, Fruit Pastilles and a Lucozade
Spoiler alert: Sheldon isn’t that cool
Of course, Law students never stop the grind
Sheldon would thrive at Cambridge
Launching a petition to bring back the red hair
Exeter has changed you
Sheldon would deffo carry a briefcase
6. Working out whose Estrid razor is whose
Get that bag, I guess
TP reunion is definitely on the cards
Please Please Please let them be right
Never forget how Maura Higgins shook up not one, but TWO couples in the villa
Zara McDermott is the new Stacey Dooley and I’m here for it
The university ranked 169th in the world in QS World University Rankings
Hold onto your ‘silly fresh’ title for just a little longer
For the plot AND the tan lines
4. Being more spontaneous
‘Jojo! Have you learned nothing!’
We can’t be friends is right
Don’t say we didn’t warn you
Only REAL girl bosses study at Exeter
But, you’re still a silly fresh at heart
Spoiler alert: None of them went to Edinburgh
The unlikely career path from Love Islander to film critic
An honourable mention to Vaults
Efes is every student’s true love this Valentine’s Day
A rugby boy isn’t the love of your life – the girls are x
She seems to be doing better off without him anyway x
Kyler is back for round two
Because January is already as tough as it is
Maybe it’s time to give your liver a break from first term
Have yourself a merry little Exe-mas
Sincerely, someone who cringes at everything
Yes, mullets are one of them
I’m sick of hearing about your sex life whilst I’m writing an essay
Because Exeter life is already a questionable concept
Because what’s scarier than your deadlines?
Because university is about the friends you make along the way
We all justify buying too many venoms in TP because girl math, duh