Ishita Shah

If you've recently moved to England and are trying to work out where on earth you're actually supposed to shop, this is the guide I wish someone had given me. We'll talk Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Lidl, Waitrose, M&S, Co-op and Nisa for groceries and everyday essentials.

Hey there! I arrived in London the way many international students do: two 23 kg suitcases, a cabin bag, a backpack and absolutely no idea what I was getting myself into. You land in London feeling a mixture of excitement, exhaustion and oh my God, I actually live here now. You've made it through immigration, successfully recovered both suitcases from baggage claim, and for a brief moment, you feel like the difficult part is over. Then you open Google Maps. Train. Tube. Change at this...

AI didn’t make university easier for me; it made the work clearer. Back when the only widely used tools were ChatGPT (and briefly Gemini), I learned that the best results didn’t come from asking a bot to “write it for me,” but from using AI to decode briefs, structure thinking, find credible sources, and pressure-test arguments. That shift alone helped me push for 75–80% work consistently. Since then, the toolkit has expanded. We now have systems that traverse citation graphs, read hundreds...