Diary of a Gen Z Student: The college course you pick tells me what kind of person you are

You may think this is a flawed system; people are complex — maybe the medical students aren’t always the biggest liability on a night out! I am in the fourth year of my degree, so I think I know what I’m on about

Jane Cowan: "Engineering students can be spotted a mile away. Their eyes sullen, their faith in humanity clearly waning. The only thing keeping them from dropping out is the vision of a well-paid job."

When I first came to college, I thought it seemed very practical that one side of Trinity’s campus is for the Stem students, the other for humanities. We work with different sides of the brain... we don’t need to mix.

But something funny happens when you separate the poetry kids from the calculus ones. We view each other as obscure, inscrutable creatures. I, for one, am slightly scared of people who sign themselves up to study a Stem subject. That kind of ability to withstand pain is somewhat concerning. Masochism obscured by a degree.