Students can often be seen studying or reading in a bar during the day. Depending on where you go, families, old married couples and crowds of co-workers mix with the diverse student body. Students often opt to go to a pub before joining the end of a queue at a club. Every evening students also receive such coupons in their mailboxes. We are bombarded with an excess of possibilities.
Girls often wear thin pink scarves, mid-length leather jackets, skirts and strappy stiletto shoes.
Wearing boots, jeans and an all-weather jacket, I feel the cold pushing through my clothes and still manage to trip over the uneven pavement. Guys are more sensible with their clothes, but often choose to creatively dress the sidewalks, parks and streets of the city instead. On early Sunday mornings, while heading toward Princes Street to my job at a local wholefoods store, I step around the chips, pizza crusts and Styrofoam containers that decorate my walk. Pubs, clubs and mobile phones are just one part of student life in Edinburgh. Many students realize that they are in a city of immense history and opportunity and choose to seize it.