Societies
IC Hack 2026: Wizards Return to the Castle
Imperial’s famous event, and Europe’s biggest hackathon, took place over the last weekend of January.
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Food
Mastering meal prepping
A simple habit that saves time, money, and energy.
Drug Survey 2026
DS26: Hard drugs
Close to a quarter (92 out of 389) of respondents reported taking a “hard drug”, which is roughly five times the national average. According to the Office for National Statistics, 4.5% of people aged 16-24 take class A drugs, cannabis excluded. As with our cannabis figures, it seems likely
Drug Survey 2026
DS26: Cannabis
Of the 322 respondents that answered the questions in this section, a razor-thin majority had consumed cannabis in some form. This is very different to what national statistics find – in one recent study, 12.5% of youths aged 16-24 reported to have consumed the drug. This might be due to
Drug Survey 2026
DS26: Alcohol
National studies find that around three-quarters of Generation Z drink in the UK, meaning Imperial’s 28% is broadly in line with the average. The faculty of engineering had the highest proportion of drinkers. However, among those who drink within faculties, Business School students and medics have the most weekly
Societies
Volunteer with Soup Run Soc!
Imperial’s Soup Run Society supports the Children of Adam Soup Kitchen, a charity that hosts a food drive every Sunday in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, near Holborn station. I’ve been meaning to volunteer for the longest time, yet never made enough effort to sign up. After meeting committee
Societies
The 93% Club is back
Felix spoke to the team of students running Imperial’s chapter of one of the largest social mobility clubs in the UK at their first event.
Drug Survey 2026
DS26: Nicotine
Of the 370 students who completed the nicotine section of the survey, a third reported a consumption of nicotine, either regularly or in social contexts only. Among these, 77% smoke cigarettes, 54% vape, and 42% take snus or nicotine pouches. Nationally, the share of youths that report using nicotine pouches
Drug Survey 2026
DS26: Who answered our survey?
The total sample size was 429 people, of which 242 answered all questions. Respondents were given the option to skip any question. 40% of respondents were women, slightly lower than Imperial’s 44%, but in line with the average for undergraduate courses (6:4 men-to-women ratio). The faculty of Natural
Culture
The Firebird at the Southbank Centre
Saturday 18th saw the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Southbank Centre play Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet The Firebird, his first of many orchestral pieces commissioned by the Ballets Russes, and my personal favourite. Being something of a classical music fan, I went along to my first major performance of
Culture
Who gets to design the world?
Design and Disability: a probing V&A exhibit interrogating design justice
Drug Survey 2026
Presenting: the 2026 Felix Drug Survey
After a long wait, it is our pleasure to present Felix’s first Drug Survey results. Keen to diversify this newspaper’s survey topics (currently, just sex) into more highbrow issues, last May the team launched a survey interrogating Imperial students’ consumption of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis and other psychoactive substances.