Maina joined the Edinburgh Tab as a writer in her third year at university and contributed regularly with articles. As well as publishing a weekly clubbers of the wee article, Maina also helped kickstart What are you Wearing Wednesdays on The Tab Edinburgh instagram. Maina became the features editor in her fourth year at university and now comes up with pitches and ideas for other writers as well as editing their work
Maina attended school in North London and is in her final year at Edinburgh University finishing her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies and English Literature
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Is yours accurate?
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I just don’t have the emotional bandwidth to deal with it anymore x
My TikTok FYP is shaking with all the chaos
‘Having never sat formal examinations before, the stress levels are extreme’
Who knew intimacy coordinators were the real MVPs of the show?
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Are we all ditching the drink for 2023?
Because the fourth floor is SO last year
Because there’s no ‘I’ in ‘uterus’ but there is an ‘us’