Saving Money While You’re At Uni: Budgeting
Having money while you’re at university might sound like a mammoth task, but you’re here doing a degree so if you can manage that, you can manage most things. I’ve been stuck for money lots […]
Articles by Siân
English. . . in the Workplace?
When I heard about the English in the Workplace module back when I was picking my second year subjects, I thought it was going to be about stocking shelves in Waterstones (because books, I guess) […]
Is Being An Academic Rep Worth it?
If you’re a fan of Resident Evil, you’ll understand why I got excited when I learnt that there was something called STARS in my first year at Staffs. Uni must be pretty intense if it […]
Playing Nice: Tips On Working With Others
Here is an appropriate representation of my feelings towards group work: via GIPHY I genuinely hate it, and I’ve had to do a couple of group projects every year I’ve been at uni. Part of […]
Is Homesickness Real?
When I moved away from home for uni I was nineteen. I actually couldn’t wait to get out of the house and into my new place, where I’d have a massive room and I’d be […]
What Happens After Welcome Week?
So Welcome Week is over and classes have started. You’ve got that snazzy new pencil case and you’ve promised yourself you won’t doddle on this notepad in between PowerPoint slides, and you’ve already kinda-sorta sussed […]
Four Reasons You Should Join a Group or Society
So when I started looking into the groups and societies we have here at Staffs, I jokingly clicked around to see if we had an Illuminati Society or New World Order Appreciation Club or […]
Fresher’s Flu Is Real.
You hear about it even before you start university. You think everyone’s making it up. You don’t think it’ll happen to you. But then it does. Freakin’ Fresher’s Flu. via GIPHY I too was like […]
My First Day: Welcome Week
Getting to know the people I’d be studying with for the next three years started, for me, on Facebook. A day or so after I got the confirmation I’d be going to uni, I joined […]
Student Accommodation Horror Stories (And How To Avoid Them)
Although I live independently in a privately rented flat now, I spent three years living with students — five of them in my first year, nine of them in the years that came after — […]