Tag: Linda Aitchison

I didn’t always show up to lectures; I was meant to study Italian, but didn’t go. And I wasn’t as involved in activism as they are, because I didn’t have the confidence. I was looking forward to living with loads of young people. I wasn’t really homesick, but I did miss Mum, even though we text every day. It’s really easy to get involved in things these days, because of Facebook. Melissa Aitchison, 19, is studying politics and international relations at Nottingham Trent University I was so excited to go to university, because everyone says how amazing it is. It was harder than I expected to make friends at first, so I needed Mum on hand. Then one day I met a girl on my course and someone in my accommodation, and we’re best friends now. We talk about things like Brexit, and I’m in the feminism society and the politics and international relations society. The stereotype of students – that we never turn up – hasn’t really changed, but I don’t think that’s true any more, because everyone works hard.