About

I remember feeling so utterly miserable during my first year at university. In a student accommodation block packed with hundreds of people, I had never felt so alone. Surrounded by strangers I couldn’t understand, miles away from home, I found myself searching for purpose in the smallest things. I’d buy an overpriced coffee in town, just to sit and watch flocks of students my own age, trying to see the secret I seemed to be excluded from. Why did it come so easily to everyone else when it felt impossibly hard for me? My journal became my refuge, filling up faster than ever as I buried myself in my studies to compensate for my lack of a social life. Writing was my solace. I wrote about everything; books, music, the social world I felt locked out of. I wrote about my loneliness, my frustration, and the guilt of wanting to drop out, feeling as though I was letting my parents down. Eventually, I started a blog on Tumble. A private corner of the internet where I could share my thoughts, an online diary that felt more like home than my own university halls. Strangely, I found connection there. The commenters, the like-minded strangers, the sense of understanding I lacked in real life. It was all there. And so, Nouveau News was born. What started as a personal outlet became a space for others like me, a place to write about the things I loved and found fascinating, attracting those who saw the world the way I did. A place for me and for anyone else who struggled with the isolation of life in such a technologically connected world.