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Living off campus with your friends is great. but deciding who to live with can be fraught with stress and problems. Third year student Laura Hainey give you the benefit of her experience finding the prefect people to find student accommodation with.
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- 11th October 2018
Spending a year studying abroad might be the most terrifying, exciting and challenging thing you can do at university. Bethan Evans says it's also the best you can do!
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- 21st September 2018
We're looking for student bloggers to join our team. Earn money, gain some valuable experience to add to your CV and show off your writing skills!
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- 18th September 2018
When you live in a Purple Frog property, we want you to get as much of your deposit back as possible. That's why we have lots of systems in place to make sure deposit returns are as fair as possible. Here, Nadine, one of our deposits team explains how.
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by Nadine Bevis - 11th July 2018
When you first move off campus, you never know what to expect. Floods and plaster casts definitely shouldn't appear on the list, though. Here's how to survive it all.
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- 20th June 2018
Student summer holidays last for three long months! Should you spend them having fun or gainfully employed? That's the student dilemma. Is sad and alone the only way to experience Bulgarian public transport? Student blogger, Sam Aird has some thoughts.
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- 19th June 2018
Thriving at university is more than just turning up to lectures. As she finishes her final year as a student at University of Birmingham, Jo Patmore reflects on 5 life lessons she'll take away from her time at university.
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- 19th June 2018
For most of the year the university library is a cool, quiet, empty space. Come exam time, it fills up with people. Terrible people. And student blogger Jo Patmore is not amused.
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- 1st June 2018
What's better than exams? When your exams have finished and you can forget them. Here's four events that will help Birmingham students push all that revising out of mind, courtesy of Bethan Evans.
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- 15th May 2018
It's summer term, which means also means it's time for the final loan instalment. Laura Hainey has some sage advice to make sure that the loan doesn't appear the moment it arrives.
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- 13th April 2018