Clearing: Is Uni Worthwhile?
If you don’t go to uni, you won’t get a job: a mantra that was drilled into everyone I went to school with. The last six months of college were a frenzy of applications, personal […]
Month: August 2016
There’s Still Time To Apply Through Clearing
Clearing has been going on for about a week now, and you know the weird thing is that at this point, when I was coming through clearing, I still hadn’t applied. This week, two years […]
Graduation 2017: What Am I worried About?
The graduation ceremonies for 2016 gave me an existential crisis. I was seeing photos of all these beautiful red-and-black gowned students get their awards, and all I could think was, In a year, that’s going […]
How Blogging Can Help You Through Uni
Having been a Student Blogger/ Digital Student Ambassador for Staffordshire University for nearly a year now, I can honestly say that it is one of the best decision I made to apply for the job. […]
Things I Wish I’d Known About Tackling Assignments
There’s only one word scarier than ‘exams,’ and that word is ‘results.’ Luckily for me, my course only had two exams and they were both fairly non-threatening (even if it absolutely did not feel that […]
Clearing was the best decision I ever made…
I know a lot of people hate the idea of going through Clearing… You had in your mind a plan of what you wanted to be and what you wanted to do at university but […]
What to expect if you visit us about Clearing, by Sian and Lauren
Over the Clearing weekend Lauren and I were in Brindley, welcoming walk-ins. We saw students from as far away as Kent, Worcester and Dover, and students from a little closer; Lichfield, Wilmslow and Shrewsbury. As […]
What’s hot in SOT
On Campus If you’re looking for food & drink on campus why not visit Ember Lounge if you want the pub vibe. If you’re feeling a bit more fancy and want that American vibe and […]
University vs. School
The transition from college or sixth form to uni can be a big one, especially if you’re moving away from home. There are sooo many differences between being at school and being at university, so […]
What I wish I’d known about Clearing
So having been through Clearing twice you’d think I had little to nothing to learn about it, right? Well, I’ve learnt plenty and I’m still being surprised. There’s things I’ve discovered helping the Clearing Team […]