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How to Survive Freshers Week: Lessons I Learned in My First Year
If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ll know that I didn’t really have the traditional freshers week experience. Moving straight into a flat with my partner meant that I didn’t experience what a ‘typical freshers week’ was like.
How Moving Away For University Changed My Relationship With My Family
When I moved away for university, I was terrified that my relationship with my family was going to change in a negative way. I thought that our close knit family unit was going to cease to exist (or worse, carry on existing without me). Thankfully, that didn’t happen and our […]
Studying around your Family – Top Tips
Are you a parent, and also studying? Then here are some top tips on how to fit studying in around your family life. Schedule your Study time Family life can be hectic and busy most of the time. Add in studying alongside being a parent, and you begin to wonder, […]
4 Important Things to Remember in Your Student Routine
Are you starting university in a few weeks time? Below are four things you should remember to do, especially in your first few busy weeks of term. You can thank me later. Keep Hydrated Keeping hydrated is so important in your daily life, but it is even more important to […]
Nine things to do before University.
Arrange your accommodation, most first year students opt to stay in halls, which are on campus and are an easy way to get to meet different people. Halls now offer various types of accommodation including a mixture of catered & self catering, quiet & social as well as mixed gendered […]
Benefits of Living at Home While at Uni
You have just been accepted to University, your excitement is bubbling, nervous about what’s to come, thinking about university, Live at Home or Stay in the Dorms, tough choice. Many will opt to live at the Dorms, Freedom at last, away from Parents, siblings, the crowded house, always having to […]
University tips to be at the top of your game
In this post I will share some of my top tips for ambitious university students. Tese are things that I wish I had told my freshers-year self. Nonetheless, these are things I picked up over time and they definitely helped me over my university years although I wish I had […]
False beliefs I held about university before I got there
Before I went to university I had the impression that it was going to be all sunshine and daisies. I thought everything would go perfectly and it would be a walk in the park. I could not have been more wrong. Very quickly I learnt that the my initial belief […]
The Top Productivity Apps to Start Your Day
Apps, apps everywhere… We are all in the digital age, now our plane tickets are on our phones, our notes are on our phone, our music is on out phone and we can even control our house with our phones! Given that we spend a lot of time (and money) […]
Debunking 5 First Year University Myths
If you just picked up your A level results last week and are eagerly anticipating your first year at university, below are five common first year university myths, debunked. It’s a huge jump from A levels I didn’t find the jump between A levels and university difficult. I study English […]
How University Changed My Relationship With Food (And Myself)
Before I started University, I didn’t have a very healthy relationship with food. I was eating the wrong things, eating too much and gaining weight. Before I started uni, I had to decide that enough was enough. I had to decide that I wanted to make a change. What really […]
How Asking For Help Changed The Way I Work
I used to be someone who liked to do everything by myself. I would rather sit and struggle by myself than admit to anybody that I needed their help. I would very rarely want anybody to read my work, unless the teacher had already said that it was good and […]
How To Conquer Fresher’s Nerves.
The start of university is perhaps one of the most nerve-wracking time of your life. Even if you are excited to get out there, meet new people, study and become more independent, you will still be nervous. Fresher’s week is the pivotal moment of university. You are suddenly launched from […]
10 Things to Avoid in Your First Year of University
Navigating your first year of university can be a bit of a minefield. There’s a plethora of opportunities and that means that there’s a whole range of lessons for you to learn. Here’s 10 things I learnt the hard way… and now you can learn from my mistakes. Don’t bring […]
5 Tips for the College Grad
Tis the season for hugging, cheering, celebrating, high-fiving, and family photos that never seem to end. That’s right …it’s graduation season! As you don your cap and gown this spring, take a minute to embrace your loved ones, celebrate your accomplishments, and mindfully contemplate all that is to come. Some […]
Postgrad or No Postgrad? This is the question…
The dilemma After completing your Undergraduate Degree you will most likely ponder the idea of continuing Higher Education by studying towards a Postgraduate course. Now for many people this seems like a default option straight out of Undergrad and many of my peers seem to not put much thought into […]
University Is Hard Work
My first year at university, to be brutally honest, was an utter shambles. It took me the whole year to find my feet and, for a while I felt so pathetic for feeling like that. I’d look onto my social media and see old school friends having the best time […]
Student Organisation Tips
Starting university can be an overwhelming time, so below are some simple organisation tips, ranging from note taking to meal prepping, that I have found useful over my first year. Decide how you want to take notes from the start It is important from the offset of your degree that […]
Results Day
Results day is fast approaching. For some more than others. Let’s be honest. We are stressed or worried. Worried that we may not have achieved the grades that we want and stressed because we fear what we may have to go through to get the desired grade. That is probably […]
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