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Finding it hard to get part time work?
We all know sometimes however much you promise yourself to budget your money you can still find yourself struggling between loan days and end up begrudgingly ringing the bank of mum and dad to bail you...
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Should Students Bring Their Cars To University?
With university granting students complete independence, it is no surprise that many choose to bring their car with them when they make the move. The convenience of being able to nip to the shops and...
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Thinking of Film Studies?
If you have been thinking about studying film, then it is likely that you have been subjected to some form of gentle joshing. One of my best friends asked me if there was a McDonalds attached to our...
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Dissertation Deadline Doom!
Started writing your dissertation yet? Or are you frantically piecing together research, literature reviews and data? Let’s admit it, last December you were adamant you had plenty of time – “pah! It’s...
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Long distance relationships can work
Valentine’s Day has been and gone, but the sentiment still remains for me. This was the first Valentine’s Day I was able to spend with my other half since moving away to study in Derby. It takes me...
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Beat the Burglar
Imagine the scene, you come back from a hard day of lectures to find your humble student home has been completely ransacked. You step over broken glass into the living room, your Xbox is gone. You head...
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Be the change you want to see at university.
In October last year, I was diagnosed with a health condition which meant I had to completely change my whole lifestyle. My diagnosis meant that I had an incurable endocrine disorder which left me...
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Why Halls Can Be The Best Thing Ever
Daunting as it might seem to move away from home, your friends, your family and everything you know in order to go to another part of the Country, all alone, with nobody to help you with your washing...
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Course Conundrums
At what age should you have decided what you want to do for the rest of your life? Choosing a degree is a huge part in this life altering process, but there’s a lot of pressure on making the right...
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Keep calm and reference on
Now, University is an exciting time for everybody! Of course you will feel happy, worried, sad and excited all at the same time. For me, it was a very similar feeling. A bit like eating a hot skittle,...
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Fun & Simple Revision Tips
Revision Tips With it coming to the final semester of university and maybe your most important semester with your final exams what’s the best way to prepare for them? The answer is to simply revise as...
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Defending Your Degree
There will be days when you will feel like you’ve made the worst choice you could have possibly made. There will be days where you are sat alone in the library staring blankly at your laptop screen....
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Is a postgraduate degree for you?
For those who have clear career goals in life, postgrads prove to be a popular option. Not only will it give you immense pleasure in pursuing your area of expertise, but it will also enhance your...
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Fresher Phone Home
This is a personal message to my Mum. “I’m alive (despite my raging hangover), I’m eating (Sainsbury’s Basic Super Noodles) and I’m doing okay (If you infer ‘okay’ as showing up to lectures and not...
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Can you put a price on a qualification?
I am nearly at the end of my Creative Writing degree now and as I look back I ask myself the following question, was it all worth it? After university, I will get a job and be dumped with probably...
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Embrace the ‘uncool’
Going to university is such a fantastic opportunity to turn over a fresh new leaf in our lives, regardless of whether we move across the country (or even the world) to study, or stay where we are as I...
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How To Earn Money (and Food) Quickly
Let’s assume you’re one of those students who isn’t lucky enough to be in the position where being poor allows you to become rich, thanks to the generous offerings of full-whack student loans,...
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Healthy In Halls
I have shocking self-control when it comes to cheesy chips. I can’t resist the greasy strips of potato, smothered in shredded pieces of something that resembles cheese (it tastes more like flour than...
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Revision Vs. Relaxation
Your suitcases have been unpacked (contents is now on your floor). Your bedroom is already a mess. Your pets have been forcefully hugged (and instagramed), and the kitchen cupboards have been...
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Working Part Time During Your Studies
Should I get a job during university? Working a part-time job during your university course will improve your finances and boost your employability. You’ll learn transferable skills too, such as time...
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Seasonal Jobs
Are you sick of summer, or broke on the run-up to Christmas? Perhaps you want some extra cash, but don’t wish to commit to a long-term role? A seasonal job might be just what you’re looking for! This...
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Making The Most Of University For Your CV
After approximately 12 years of living at home and participating in mandatory full-time education, most students see university as a release into the big wide world. They move away from the confines of...
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Which Degree should you do? The one you want to!
I remember every single time someone said it to me, when I would tell them I really, really disliked my degree. All the times I would consider quitting, the same sentence would be uttered, burned into...
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UNI-Time
As you’re handed your key to your new room in your halls of residence you think, “This is it, you have been handed your freedom”. The freedom that you were dreaming of during you’re A-Levels and...
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How to deal with…unpleasant housemates
Living with other people is difficult whether you’re sharing with close friends, acquaintances or complete strangers. Every situation is different and so each case needs to be approached individually....
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Uni Basics: 101
Joining a society at university is never something I thought would be particularly important. Why would I need even more stress at uni, I’ll already be having work to do, on top of all the banter and...
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Exams and Revision – Don’t Be a Sheep
It’s that time of year again… the lengthy period of pre-exam revision which I imagine a lot of final year students out there, for one, are quite fed up of now, if they’re anything like I was. It’s...
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Summertime Sadness
I’ve already worked out that by the time I go back to University for my last term I will only have thirty-three days until I will be free for the summer. Only thirty-three days until I can have nearly...
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Things You Didn’t Think You’d Need at University (but actually come in very...
1. Screwdriver I didn’t even realise I had packed this when I moved away from home. My dad had sneakily snuck it into my case, and when I asked him about it later he just replied with “well, you never...
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Instant impact, pocket-money prices: Home décor on a budget
Everywhere you look nowadays, you see articles explaining how to save money through recycling, upcycling, swap-shopping and all-round general bargain hunting. The list of ways to save is exhaustive,...
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Worthwhile Student Investments
Although us students can often feel as if the whole world is against us due to the twenty-four hour partying, “Skins”-Esq. raves and baked bean-eating stereotype that is forced upon us, it does seem as...
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Fatal Procrastination
As a Masters student, I more than anyone know how easy it is to get in to the procrastination cycle. Whilst writing my previous dissertation I spent three hours looking at cats that look like models....
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The (Human) Needle in the Haystack
You don’t need me to tell you how many thousands of people go to the same uni, or study in the same city, as you. You’re surrounded by what seems to be all of them every time you go anywhere near your...
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Suit up! by Michael Ham
With Christmas and the New Year and all its festivities in and out of uni out of the way, you might find yourself dwelling on the next few weeks with coursework and exams to revise for. However it is...
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The 8 Emotional Stages of A Dissertation
We’ve all been there. Sitting in the library at 2AM, high as kites on an incredibly healthy concoction of Dominos, Pro Plus and Red Bull, knee deep in Harvard Referencing and literature reviews....
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A Year at Uni: My Reflection
When arriving at university, your first experiences revolve around the accommodation you live in. Most will live in halls with hundreds of students; however, I am not one of those people. I chose to...
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House Hunting – A Student’s and Recent Grad’s Guide To Living in Hovels
Maybe you’ve just finished your first year of university and you want to escape the hell that is university mandated student accommodation. Maybe you’ve graduated from the whole shebang and you’re...
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