The Sneaky Student

Exams are in full swing and for many of you it’s getting to the point in the year when moving out is starting to play on your mind. Impossibly there is always more stuff in your room at the end of the year than the beginning despite your best efforts not to bring the kitchen sink with you. The easiest way to deal with the mountains of belongings is to split it up into categories and tackle a bit a day. This is especially useful if you are in a student house and also need to complete the massive clean up operation before handing back your keys. It is best split into the following categories:

• Clothes – this is

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I can in no way be described as a gym bunny, in fact after a row with a massive gym chain (let’s just say, they don’t put the customer ‘first’) I have sworn never to set foot in a gym again. I don’t, however, want to turn into a massive super sized version of myself and because of my passionate love of cheese and all carbohydrates this requires work! My point being, I HATE exercising but it is a necessary evil and once all those endorphins start pumping I even start making rash promises such as to go jogging every morning (which needless to say I haven’t done once). Here are the best ways to exercise without the pain:

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It’s coming up to that time of year again and although many of you still have exams to finish (begin) revising for, the worrying question of what to wear to the formal end of term ball is looming.

For the males among you it is easy as, either a DJ and all the trimmings, which as any girl will tell you is a sure fire way to attract the ladies. The alternative is to go for a normal suit and put your spin on it, be it with splash of colour linking the tie, subtle stripe in the shirt and belt or by choosing a demure everything apart from a gorgeous shirt that is bound to get you noticed. Ted … Continue Reading

If you look at you budget and spending patterns most of your money will probably go on food and drink. I’m not even going to attempt to improve spending on drink because if there is anything I’ve learnt as a sober student is that without everyone else drinking my time in a nightclub wouldn’t be half as fun!

Most students will quite happily spend money on what they see as essentials; e.g. food. However they then go buy pizza and convenience meals that contain more additives and preservatives than your average taxidermied dodo, with a small amount of forethought and a little effort you can save buckets on food as well as improving your diet (which will help ward off … Continue Reading

Delaying, frittering, prorogation or idling – they all amount to the same thing PROCRASTINATION. We all do it to varying degrees and around this joyful time of exams your average procrastinator goes into overdrive. People find all sorts of amazing distractions that need doing urgently in place of revision, cleaning and reorganizing are obvious as well the standard crucial inter-house video game marathon. Everyone will write a revision schedule and unanimously fail to stick to it, mainly because apart from being ridiculously overambitious they completely cut out any kind of fun time, as a result only the first possibly second items on the list get ticked off.

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