Valentine's Day - Love Box

Dear residents,

In light of our Valentine's Day Party, held on 10th of February, your creative and romantic abilities are needed! As you might have noticed, the IH Times Love Box has been set up at the pigeon holes near the reception. You will find official love letter templates in that area - it is your job to write a sweet, hopefully not too graphic, Valentines Day letter or poem to a fellow IH resident, either anonymously or not. If you need inspiration, feel free to consult the love letters from past years which are hanging in front of the lift entrances in the lower ground floor.

The best (and worst) letters will be published on the IH blog and on facebook. Of course, you can also win some prizes for having sent the best letter, for having received the best letter, and for the worst of all. So: be romantic, be creative, proclaim your love or whatever feelings you may have - now is the time to put it all in writing and to submit it. The winners will be announced at the Valentine's Day Party so spread the love and get started! Cupid's arrows are waiting to land in your hearts!

See you soon!
The IH Club Committee <3

You know you’re a student when...

(Lovingly copied and pasted off Facebook by Hemish. This is from one of those groups where you have to ‘like’ it first to see what innate thing it says – judging by the content, this was probably written by a Queen Mary’s student). LOL!

• You wake up and wonder where the hell you are.
• You live off 8p basics noodles from Sainsbury’s.
• You spend more time uploading and tagging pictures on Facebook than you did actually taking the pictures during the previous night out.
• The only post you get are either take-away menus or TV-license warning letters.
• You hate the other colleges, just because everyone else does.
• You are carried home after a night out by your nice new flatmates.
• You give up eating for a week just so you can afford to go out.
• You wake up and find bruises everywhere, but you're not quite sure how you managed to fall in those places.
• 4oD becomes your best friend because you cannot afford a TV or a license to watch a TV.
• Spontaneous nights out become every night.
• When your flatmate eats your food you consider it a crime.
• Your laptop breaking is like losing a member of your immediate family.
• Your 'five a day' consist of the grapes in the bottle of wine and the apples in the cans of cider.
• You realise that Facebook will ruin your degree. You realise Wikipedia will save it.
• A balanced diet means varying your takeaway choices.
• It’s socially acceptable to wear your pyjamas anywhere.
• You go out of your way to make friends who can cook.
• You expect to a find a trolley, etc in your bed if you’ve gone out and left your door unlocked.
• The word Google becomes a verb.
• An 11 o’clock lecture is “too early”.
• You think the floor above you are the noisiest people ever, but you don’t understand why the floor below you complain all the time.
• You say "I'm never going to drink again" at least once a week.
• Power naps become a way of life.
• You spend half an hour trying to work out if you should get the 20p cheaper toilet paper, then spend £5 a day on ‘hangover food’.
• “I’m not drinking a lot tonight” really means I’m getting absolutely hammered.
• No matter how broke you are, there is always enough money to get pissed.
• Eating a whole bag of crips as a substitute for dinner is acceptable.
• Takeaway deliver guys become your new best friend.
• 3 days go by before you realize you've not left the house or got dressed.
• You try and piece together what happened on a night out based on the texts you sent, the phone calls you made, and the photos that appear on Facebook.
• No matter how determined you are not to go out....someone will persuade you.
• You can't walk to anywhere without being molested by club and bar promo leaflets.
• You hear Sexy Bitch by David Guetta and Akon 5 times a night.
• You get annoying Facebook emails about the same club nights every week.
• Beans and pasta becomes your staple diet.
• Food that’s free always tastes better.
• You realise anything can be cooked in a microwave.
• You walk into your communal kitchen at 3 in the morning to get a snack because you can’t sleep and find all your friends there snacking.
• Checking your post HAS to be done daily.
• You are ridiculously excited when you have post.
• Spotify is running at least 16 hours a day.
• You complain that your course books are £30 quid then go out and spend the same amount in booze, if not more.
• You realise cheese is really, really really expensive.
• You wake up covered in pen and don’t know why.
• Deodorant becomes your new shower.
• Dinner after 7pm becomes late.
• You wash your clothes at 4 in the morning.