Articles by Victoria Melita Zammit

Although we can all agree that Valentine’s Day is a consumerist holiday created by Hallmark to sell cards, chocolates and teddy bears to people wanting to remind their partners that they love them

Now that I’ve come back to Malta, after four months of living in another country, the painful process of "readjusting’ has started.

"Well, Earth has life on it because it’s the right distance from the sun to, and because of its water percentage and atmosphere. You really think there aren’t other planets out there like us, in other galaxies?’

Recently, student organization Pulse released a statement about lowering the age of consent from 18 to 16. Speaking as a University student, who has reached the age of consent 3 years ago, this matter does not concern me personally.

When people usually recommend something to take up your time, they mostly go for the mainstream things — TV shows, movies, books, obvious choices.

Anybody who knows me personally knows that one of the only things that can get me overly excited is meeting a Buffy fan, or encountering any piece of Buffy trivia.

While being on ERASMUS in Limerick — a beautiful, small city in Ireland, that boasts a large population of international students every year — I found out that two years ago, a Maltese student who arrived at the same university on ERASMUS

“The movement for gender equality was originally conceived as a struggle led only by women for women. In recent years, men have begun to stand-up in addressing inequalities and discrimination faced by women and girls.”

Finding a Harry Potter fan is, personally, an exhilarating experience every time.

Whether we’re all aware of it or not, we’ve all been subjects to foreshadowing be it in literature, film, or in TV shows. Foreshadowing is, by dictionary definition, "a warning or an indication of a future event’.

I’ve been living in Limerick since the 2nd of September, having moved here for ERASMUS, and I can honestly say that it’s the best decision I’ve made my whole student career.

As EFL teachers — teachers of English as a Foreign Language — we are subject to, not only mornings full of irate teenagers who don’t want to learn anything and days spent trying to make learning fun

Looking through my psychology book, I come across multiple definitions, and the most important and widely discussed one is this…

On the 31st of May, in Pjazza La Vallette in Valletta, a group of people were centred together creating a cacophony of sounds that, if listened closely to, were revealed to be none other than percussion instruments jamming together.

It’s almost like the universe is forcing ironic reminders at us that being at the ripe University-age is anything but easy.

Caroline Curmi and Victoria-Melita Zammit braved the grey skies on the 5th of April to sit through a training session with The Show of Arms, and get to talk to them and find out exactly what they’re all about.

It’s sad, at least from my point of view, that the first thing most people do when they hear the phrase "comic books’ is roll their eyes or give a small groan of impatience. Yes, comic books.

Caroline Curmi and Victoria-Melita Zammit, in their first published collaboration, take on the Kunsill Studenti Universitali (KSU) Elections with a pinch of salt, as they go through the manifestos both parties have produced for their campaigns.

The New Victorians are a homely duo who have been active on the island since 2011. They’ve accumulated quite an audience, performing at events such as the BMAs, and the upcoming Rock the South event in April.

We’ve all heard funk, whether we actually like it or not. A music genre that erupted in the sixties and kept on going well into eighties, funk is one of music’s most lively genres.