The success of Sejan’s Journal has been a long time coming. First-year medicine student Sejan Vigneswaralingam has been working on content creation for years now, though the publicity of his account today is something novel.  His journey began in 2022. “I didn't actually post anything back then, but it was a starting point for me,” Vigneswaralingam said. This was when he first began making videos that recapped his summer and chronicled his travels. “But I wouldn't post them anywhere,” he...

I’m sick of hearing that St Andrews is boring. Yes, it’s only been four weeks since break and yes, I’ve already had coffee at every cafe in town. OK, maybe the beaches are only as exciting as your first Instagram post of them. But if you’re quick to label the town as boring, maybe it’s time for a little self-reflection. A quick scroll on Google Maps (late at night before a pitch-meeting I am woefully underprepared for) reminds me that St Andrews has its very own aquarium. And like much of...

On 20 November, 1975, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco passed away. His death closed the door on an era of torture and censorship that lasted 36 years. According to Modern Languages professor Jordi Larios, however, reparations have yet to be made. Larios, born in 1959, grew up under Franco’s regime, with the year of his birth marking twenty years since the end of the Spanish Civil War. Several of his family members were victims of Franco’s oppressive rule. “My maternal grandmother and my...