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Who stay away from home.
How expensive is it exactly?
Do you have a part time job etc
My plan for next year is to move into the 'Student Villiage' in the centre of Glasgow. It's like £75 a week or something. But, if I save up my loan for the next year and my wages and can still come home to work at weekends I could afford it I think.
Since the place I'm staying is next to the station and my work is next to a station it'll only take me about 45 minutes to get to work.
Waheh, I get to be a real student... next year.
How expensive is it exactly?
Do you have a part time job etc
My plan for next year is to move into the 'Student Villiage' in the centre of Glasgow. It's like £75 a week or something. But, if I save up my loan for the next year and my wages and can still come home to work at weekends I could afford it I think.
Since the place I'm staying is next to the station and my work is next to a station it'll only take me about 45 minutes to get to work.
Waheh, I get to be a real student... next year.
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And my town is the pits.
Nah, I do.
Anyway, my debts will be in half as I'm only doing it two years. I was actually loaded last year, staying at home and doing 20 hours at work is good money.
Anyway, my debts will be in half as I'm only doing it two years. I was actually loaded last year, staying at home and doing 20 hours at work is good money.
One thing I will say is you need to have at least some sense of discipline - it's too easy to pi$$ about if you live in a house full of people who mince about all day.
The travelling is just too much, I'm not really enjoying Uni at all.
huge crippling debts are just one of the perks of being a despised skint student.
If I could do it all again, I would have pulled my head out of my ass and done my A-Levels, and hence got into Uni when my mates did. Then I would have gone to a decent Uni, rather than a penniless institute. Finally, I would indeed have moved to the Uni and lots of casual sex with loose student women, stuffing kebabs down my gullet, drinking gallons of beer, smoking the herb, sleeping in til 12, playing xbox for hours with people I barely know, eating beans on toast every night, going to £1 a pint nights at local pubs, staggering back laughing my ass off, stealing a traffic cone and everything else that is great about studenthood.
As it is I messed about at college, dropped out, worked in terrible job after terrible job, decided to have one last crack at education, went to a rather gash Institute which was quite close to my house, so ended up just travelling there and not getting the 'full student experience'. I feel I missed out in a way, but not really.
A lot of my student mates went to UCLAN which is nearby, and I crashed their houses instead. I got the full student experience, but with a nice clean house to go to when I'd had enough.
If I could do it all again, I would have pulled my head out of my ass and done my A-Levels, and hence got into Uni when my mates did. Then I would have gone to a decent Uni, rather than a penniless institute. Finally, I would indeed have moved to the Uni and lots of casual sex with loose student women, stuffing kebabs down my gullet, drinking gallons of beer, smoking the herb, sleeping in til 12, playing xbox for hours with people I barely know, eating beans on toast every night, going to £1 a pint nights at local pubs, staggering back laughing my ass off, stealing a traffic cone and everything else that is great about studenthood.
As it is I messed about at college, dropped out, worked in terrible job after terrible job, decided to have one last crack at education, went to a rather gash Institute which was quite close to my house, so ended up just travelling there and not getting the 'full student experience'. I feel I missed out in a way, but not really.
A lot of my student mates went to UCLAN which is nearby, and I crashed their houses instead. I got the full student experience, but with a nice clean house to go to when I'd had enough.
You could live near the uni, which I'm guessing is close to the city centre. Tons of jobs there, just apply before the new year. You can then stay at and around uni weekdays, and go back home at the weekends.
Well, really, if your parents don't mind you staggering in at 05:00, then stay at home. It'll save you a hell of a lot of money and won't have the ill effect on your studies that non-stop partying does.
See, I was in a crap situation really.
I had no where near enough the money and couldn't ask parents.
I wanted to go to Glasgow, it was my perfect choice.
I actually really like my family.
And I had a long term girlfriend.
Now, though I want to do the Uni lifestyle, commuting is just making it really crap.
Think my mate is up for it too.
I had no where near enough the money and couldn't ask parents.
I wanted to go to Glasgow, it was my perfect choice.
I actually really like my family.
And I had a long term girlfriend.
Now, though I want to do the Uni lifestyle, commuting is just making it really crap.
Think my mate is up for it too.
One of the main reasons for living away from home is complete independence; I chose my uni partly because I didn't want to see my parents for half a year.
It's worked out fine, other than the huge debts.
It's worked out fine, other than the huge debts.
SHEEPY wrote:
> You get a bigger loan staying away from home too.
you sure do. It's great fun being £13k in debt!
Oh wait, no it's not ... :(
> You get a bigger loan staying away from home too.
you sure do. It's great fun being £13k in debt!
Oh wait, no it's not ... :(
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