Five things to do this week

Get excited about the opening of the student-run arts festival On the Rocks, a South Asian fashion show and Easter Sunday.


1. It’s the first day of lectures after a blissful two weeks of relaxing at home, or travelling the globe with family and friends, and you’re probably feeling a mixture of excitement about being reunited with your uni chums, and depression about recommencing academic work. Don’t stress yourself out too much this week, but ease yourself gently into university life. Get enough sleep, watch TV, and GO OUT as much as possible before you’re suddenly inundated with deadlines and tests, regretting not making the most of this period of relative calm.

2. If in your rush to pack up your things and say your goodbyes, you didn’t get the chance to apply to be a part of the trendy team behind FS next year, don’t fret! You still have until noon today to fill out an application online. Good luck!

 

3. Music is Love is joining forces with On the Rocks in hosting ‘On the Rocks Opening Event’ this Friday at the Byre Theatre. £2 tickets grant attendees access to stalls and various artistic displays, accompanied by blues, jazz and folk music in the main bar, and to a film by Anthropology students in the studio. If you’d like to see live performances by Mima Thewes, Inti Rowland and eagleowl, you have to buy a £6 ticket separately, still a decent price for a few hours of entertainment by such highly acclaimed music acts!

4. SITARA, a fashion show celebrating South Asian culture, is taking place this Saturday in a marquee on the grounds of the Old Course. As well as a fashion runway, the show consists of dance performances and silent acting, all drawing their inspiration from the theme ‘street culture’. This year’s show’s proceeds will be donated to SOS Children’s Village Multan, a non-governmental social welfare organisation funding housing for abandoned children and orphans. Standard tickets are all sold out, but you can still attend the show as a VIP, or find someone selling their cheaper ticket.

 

5. Easter Sunday is finally in sight, a relief for all of those of you who have given up something you love for Lent. Chocolate is a popular choice of sugary food to give up, and so an Easter egg is the perfect treat with which to satiate cravings. If your mother didn’t insist on you taking a ridiculously huge Lindt egg back to university with you, likely to be smashed during the lug and tug of suitcases on the train, go to Tesco ASAP. All eggs are on offer this week, including Dairy Milk, Galaxy and Terry’s Chocolate Orange – a great excuse to buy them all!

 

 

Images courtesy of Callum Hyland and Stuart McClay