Emily Smith joined The Tab UK in the summer of 2023 after finishing her master's degree. At university, she joined The York Tab as a student contributor in 2020 before going on to become Editor in Chief for two years.
Emily graduated from The University of York in 2022 with a BA Honours in English and History. She then went on to study for an MA in English literature.
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The Green Party wants to abolish tuition fees
Imagine being called a smart girl by Olivia Rodrigo
Is someone cutting onions??
Fallowfield pulling through
And an ex-Netflix employee explained how it might have happened
Crying at baby Colin
She went IN before singing thanK you aIMee
He smashed in the heads of two sleeping students with a hammer before trying to kill a teacher
Seems I need to rewatch with my eyes actually OPEN this time
‘You got all the Polin we had’
It’s a lot less chaotic than at Hartley High
Rishi kinda quaking right now
The QS Best Student Cities 2025 Ranking is out
Nicola keeping us fed with the disposables right now
Still not over the acrylic nails
Hugo and Arabella thriving rn
Luke had to wear a ‘cup, bag-shaped thing’ and they used a smoke machine to create the steaminess
Did you spot it?
Loads of clues point to Cressida being Sophie
This is your sign to register to vote by 11:59pm tonight
In real life, Queen Charlotte died three years after season three is set
They could NEVER make me hate you Cressida Cowper
He’s been living next to it for an entire YEAR
Showing them this in my next interview x
AKA the best character of the entire series
Netflix said it will ‘defend this matter vigorously’
62 per cent of Russell Groups have dropped down
One of them has a 29-year age gap??
The details!
Over half UK unis moved down the rankings this year
The QS World University Ranking 2025 is out
I want moving swans in my hair x
‘There is so much discourse online about how I look, and I don’t think I could ever express how hard that is’
You might be £27k in debt but at least you’ve got a therapy llama
Okay but this is so convincing
Is it possible to swap lives? Asking for a friend x
I’m gonna need season three part two to fix everything
We were robbed!
Brb just dropping out
Imagine getting a Big Mac off Gypsy Rose herself
‘My beloved Penelope. Perhaps the smartest person I have ever met besides Eloise’
And now I’m crying!
Rishi Sunak said he’ll scrap ‘rip-off degrees’ in favour of apprenticeships if he wins the election
Feeling fragile right now
Colin losing his mind when he hears about study abroad
I’d leave this off the CV if I were you
Pack this in
Not her eating truffle pasta and getting spa treatments
She just got engaged!
Okay but why wasn’t I invited?
Is she actually fully conscious???
A good day to be a Liverpool student
I am emotional
Six of her videos have been taken down from social media
‘It’s so wild that I get to play a character this smart and at the same time I’m just dumb’
There were people stood outside literally shaking the carriage the whole time
It makes so much sense!
Brb just changing my degree!
‘We truly love each other’
How did we miss this??
No replies been left on read by another grad scheme
It all makes sense now!
Her dad is also Mr Carson from Downton Abbey
Filling the void while we wait for part two
That baby’s frontal lobe is more developed than mine
Their net worths are absolutely staggering
She’s a huge fan of MAFS
They broke furniture whilst filming one specific scene
Still shook at Nicola Coughlan being 37?!
Edinburgh students, are you okay??
Piers Morgan responded with ‘No Fiona you want an agent’
‘I’m just excited to watch as a viewer’
I don’t think I have it in me to wait this long
Nine of them didn’t make it into the top 20
He also referred to Taylor Swift as his ‘teammate’s girlfriend’
Cambridge really not giving anywhere else a chance
‘It’s surreal, I never expected it to pop like this’
25 per cent of them aren’t even Russell Group
‘If I wanted the real life people to be found, I would have made it a documentary’
What a crossover??
Arguments over whether the dress was blue and black or white and gold literally broke the internet in 2015
You expect me to go to my lecturers when it’s sunny??
She was engaged to him in prison BEFORE she married Ryan
Yeah, in that order
Lane and Dave deserved better!
Your mouldy kitchen not pictured x
‘I didn’t write all the emails. I think he probably made them up himself’
Keeping us FED until season four
She apparently sees a lot of similarities between the song and her life
Not a great day to be a Cardiff student
She said she chose Piers Morgan’s show ‘because he’s the best of them all’
She’ll be on Piers Morgan’s show Uncensored tomorrow
Pro-Palestine encampments have been set up at 14 UK universities
The woman announced she was planning to sue last week
‘Donny seems to be unusually self-absorbed’
Tents have been pitched outside the Pitt Rivers and Natural History Museums
Anyone else now craving ice cream?
Okay but the VIBES? Immaculate
How does one make eating a churro so sexy
It picks inspiring people under 30 who are ‘changing the world’
‘She did the same to me, made my life a nightmare. He has got her spot-on’