With nearly 50,000 students in Sheffield and the current generation of students supposedly the most Internet literate ever, where are all the student blogs?

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There are two major universities and several thousand students in Sheffield but an hour or so spent searching Google and Technorati’s blog search engines throws up very little. Sure, there are a few student blogs popping up around exam time, with a few posts of cathartic exam stress ranting and some university press release feeds, but no properly maintained blogs on the Sheffield student experience.

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It is bearing this heavy burden on my shoulders that I begin this blog, for now imaginatively titled ‘a Sheffield Student’. It won’t be a simple online diary, of the sort that gets updated everytime an essay deadline is near and prograstination is in order, but hopefully a more comprehensive site about life as a student in this fantastic city.

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However, given that I am a second year politics and international relations student at the University of Sheffield there will not only be an overwealming emphasis on the University of Sheffield to the detriment of Sheffield Hallam, but also quite a lot of outrageously geeky political stuff, for which I would like to apologise in advance.