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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
Say goodbye to exams and spend some relaxing time in the Nottinghamshire sunshine. Here's four green spaces that every Nottingham student must visit.
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- 6th 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
Do you hide in a fortress you've made out of text books or find a million and one things to avoid opening your lecture notes? Here's how to aim somewhere in between, thanks to blogger Laura Hainey.
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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
Choices, choices...One way to ensure next year at Uni is as enjoyable as possible is by choosing the right course modules. It's the difference between spending your time bored and busy, and eating watermelon.
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- 4th 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
Birmingham's hidden escapes are the best places for students to forget the stress of exams, get out in the fresh air and recharge. Jo Patmore knows the best three places in the second city for students to unwind, away from the stress of the library.
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- 29th March 2018
At some point, your family and friends will want to see where you're studying at university. Sam Aird has created a guide to surviving these visits. But the big question is 'so what's all this stuff about bassoons'?
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- 23rd March 2018