The Sneaky Student

At the back of every Uni students mind is the thought that the surreal sheltered world of Uni is going to give way at some point to harsh reality. What’s more YOUR GOING TO HAVE TO GET A JOB. The chances are if you’re at Uni you don’t plan on getting just any old job and spending the rest of your days asking ‘would you like fries with that?’. Whatever stage you’re at in your degree you need to be thinking about what skills and requirements you need to meet to get your dream career. Here are the top tips to sort your future out:

1. Decide what you want to do – Very few individuals know exactly what … Continue Reading

Freshers is the highlight of pretty much everyones first year at uni, these 4 tips are here to help ease you through what will be one of the highlights of your uni career;

1. Be available; from the minute you arrive leave your door open and say hi to everyone you see, you may think this makes you look over eager and way to keen but I promise everyone just wants to make friends. If you collect a massive group of acquaintances in freshers then you can spend the next few weeks whittling them down to a core group, if however you leave it till after freshers you have to try and nudge into ready formed friend groups –

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It’s coming up to the time of year when it’s best to sort out next Uni years finances; whether your a fresher or not it’s best to check you’re getting the best deal out there.

Here are the guidelines to ensuring you get the most for your money and ultimately can afford an extra pint or two!

1.  Get the most money on you can on a 0% overdraft – As long as you have the UCAS offer letter in hand most banks will be able to open your student account now, why wait until you’re trying to pack or even worst until you arrive when you can have it all sorted now?! Another plus being you can start … Continue Reading

I admit I’m a little bit of an old woman when it comes to technology, as far as I’m concerned a phone should do exactly that; phone people and text when required. I do have an I-pod touch so can see the appeal of as many apps as you can shake a stick at but never has my life revolved around the amount of wi-fi available or how many smurfberries (they even sound ridiculous) I’ve collected.

I used to mock people who were surgically attached to their phones but now I am a Blackberry widow.  You might have inferred that from one of Alex’s last posts about the top 5 student apps, as they are fairly blackberry heavy.  There … Continue Reading

Obsession is a dirty word, to put it bluntly: like addiction, to obsess is often to be irrational or unproductive.  Yet, if you go too far in the opposite direction, you’ll literally get nowhere.  What is needed is something called a productive obsession. A productive obsession is about finding the balance between what you are driven to and enjoy doing (and therefore, will happily obsess over), and something that adds value (be it in a business situation or in your leisure time). Indeed, Psychology Today reports that cultivating a productive obsession can be one of the best things you can do.

Having read their article, I was able to distill three main reasons to utilise your healthy obsessions:

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