How it feels to... be a fresher in the digital age

Hollie Berman
Sep 10, 2019
1 min read

Updated: Jun 15, 2020

Published in The Sunday Times Magazine (print and online) 16 September 2018.

Profile-picture props, blog boasting and humblebrags — Hollie Berman reveals how starting out at university has got a lot more complicated thanks to the smoke and mirrors of social media.

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