Best places to cry on campus

As we embark on term three, the prospect of having to sit exams and hand in coursework looms nearer.

Rewatching Games of Thrones before season 6 begins has definitely counted towards your degree.

As you now attempt to cram every last bit of revision in before the dreaded E word, lapping up Red Bull like no tomorrow, it is almost impossible not to break down into a flood of tears thinking about where it all went wrong.

Sometimes, you just need a good cry. Here are our top suggestions for having a good sob on campus…

The library 

This will surely be the best place to go to shed tears, not only will you probably already be there fighting over computer spaces and revising hard, but you’ll be in the most common area around where people will be welling up.

So,  go find a quiet corner, among the textbooks that nobody has taken out in a million years and go for it. (Keep it ssh though obviously, it is a library for Christ’s sake).

You never know, your library S/O might see you, feel sorry for you, and confess their undying love.

I’ve just got something in my eye

The Terrace

More of a motivational cry would take place here, as you look onto the distance across the wonderful view of Exeter and think if I don’t get a 2:1 then Mum won’t buy me a Fiat 500.

A single tear rolls down your cheek with this thought and you buckle up the courage to face another 3 hours of completing past papers.

Lovely views though

Amory building steps 

Sometimes when you’re feeling a down, you just want to make yourself feel worse and wallow for a little.

Head to the steps outside Exeter’s most depressing building, listen to some Bon Iver, and watch the cars drive by. Chances are, it will start raining on you but secretly, as that 2:1 seems more and more unlikely, you’ll relish the real life pathetic fallacy. Embrace the drama, my friend.

Get lost in your self before you get lost in Amory

The path between Nash grove and Duryard. 

A more secretive place on campus to cry would be the wooded area between Nash Grove and Duryard, where of course nobody can be seen for miles.

It may be a hell of a walk to get there, but you can be sure that if anyone were to hear a sort of wailing sound coming from yourself, they can assume that it’s the campus cat having a fight with the birds.

It’s just so far away

The Ram

The perfect place to drown your sorrows with a £2 pint and a bowl of curly fries is The Ram. Just forget all about your troubles and sign up for the Rameokoe, singing ‘I will survive’.

Upset at the price of the Guinness

The gym

A great way to disguise your upset is at the Russell Seal Fitness Centre.

Taking a break from revision you can power through some bicep curls or try to beat your record on the treadmill.

Crying will be easy to get away with because people will just see you doing a hardcore workout and think you crying is actually sweat.

Why is everyone so much stronger than me?

Anywhere you can do your Laundry 

Here you get a range of choices, due to the many places you can wash your clothes on campus.

Be it Cornwall house, Birks Grange, or Holland Hall, the rumbling noise of the washing machines and dryers will override the sounds of your sobbing.

It will be great, even if someone walks in on you halfway through letting it out they will probably assume you just forgot to put the washing tablets in.

Machines can dry your clothes, but not your eyes

So hopefully we have given you a vast range of places to go if you are feeling stressed about exams or just remembered what you did at TP last night.

See you there.