Third Year: Does The Hard Work Start Now?
“First Year doesn’t count”: a phrase that I heard a lot during my first couple of months of uni, but I heard it even more when first year was coming to an end. It was […]
Articles by Siân
Moving Into Accommodation: What Do I Need?
I’ve moved houses a lot throughout my life, and I moved every year I was living away from home for uni (the first time). Now, I live independently in a flat, and I think I’ve […]
Saving Money While You’re At Uni: Bargains
So now you’ve got your budget sorted out, it’s time to talk about another way you can save money: good old student discount. A flash of your student card gets you 10% off a lot […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]