Coping Away from Home
Find practical advice for adjusting to life away from home, managing homesickness, and coping with the emotional challenges of student life.
Adjusting to a New Location
One of the most stressful parts of moving to a new place is trying to become orientated with your new surroundings. This can take time and be intimidating, b...
Budgeting as a Student
It’s such a Catch-22. Just when you get out on your own and have some money coming in you get hit with every kind of bill imaginable. Water bill. Gas bill....
Dealing with Homesickness
No matter how ready you were to leave home or how excited you were to start university, homesickness is likely to strike when you least expect it. One day yo...
Doing Laundry at University
If there is one rite of passage into modern adulthood it’s doing laundry. No one actually likes to do laundry, but if we don’t do it we have nothing to w...
Housekeeping and Cleaning
If the last time your mother visited she nearly had a heart attack at the state of your floors or the grime on your windows, or the cobwebs in your corners,...
Keeping in Touch With Home as a Student
When you get caught up in the flurry of new activities at university it can be hard to stay in touch with family and friends at home. For the first little wh...
Learning to be Independent
Heading off to university is as much a chance for students to learn to be independent as it is a chance for them to continue their formal education. However,...
Learning to Cook
It might not seem like it right now, but there really are only so many take-aways and ready meals you can eat before even you become disgusted by them. Of co...
Pre-Uni Checklist
Your mother will make sure you pack your retainer while your father is busy packing up the family’s encyclopaedias. Your older sister won’t let you leave...
Staying Healthy as a Student
Staying healthy is something for which everyone must take personal responsibility. Students in particular must remain vigilant about their health because the...
The Importance of Insurance as a Student
In economic terms, insurance is a form of risk management that hedges against the risk of a catastrophic financial loss. Got all that? No? Don’t worry, nei...
What To Do In an Emergency
Fire. Flood. Theft. Illness. Accident. Potential emergencies abound when you are out on your own and while you may not be able to predict when emergencies wi...