Sara Myers
Staff Writer
Discipline: Political Sciences
Research Interests: Organised Crime in the Middle East, United States Security Policy, and why the kid from Love Actually, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, never seems to age.
If you were a box of cereal what would you be and why: Corn Pops
(http://www.buzzfeed.com/tashweenali/which-cereal-are-you#.nxPp75gw6P)
What did you want to be when you grew up: Younger me wanted to be the next J.K. Rowling who happens to moonlight as a secret agent with a supernatural sidekick. Younger me was very specific.
Where are you right now: After a wonderful summer abroad in the Middle East, I am currently under a blanket in Bruntsfield Place wondering why my Starbucks is so far away from the couch.
Tell us something about another staff writer: I won't name names, but one staff writer sabotaged the microwaving of my chicken and vegetable soup by placing her own soup in with it. She flooded the microwave and the CMB passed a new law banning such reckless behaviour.
In the port city of Calais, France, there is a refugee camp known to many as the Jungle.[1][2] While the Jungle reportedly houses 4,000 migrants according to French officials, aid workers have recently asserted that the population is nearer to 5,500 inhabitants.