Niffy is a final year Law student at City who moved to London for university, and is a self confessed BTS fan. Starting university is both an exciting and confusing time. Here are some of my own experiences and tips to help you get started. Opportunities and how to make the most of them While […]
Posts with the Life Skills tag
Resource Round Up – Learning on your Own!
There’s more stuff than ever out there to do online and at home to support learning at home, but with more and more added every day it’s getting tough to find useful, interesting and helpful resources. That’s where we’re coming in with our top three picks of what we’ve found each week to help you […]
Budgeting while at university
You have just started university and The Student Loans Company have just deposited a big chunk of money into my account, your first thought is what do I do with this? How long does it have to last? When will I get my next chunk? Your first reaction may be to spend the money on […]
What skills do you need at university?
Going to university is a time of change. You’ll be meeting new people, discovering new places and campuses, learning new things in new ways. Keeping on top of all this can be challenging, exciting, rewarding, maybe even a bit nerve wracking. So we asked some of our students what skills they thought were most important […]
Be more mushroom
In today’s post, we’ll be looking at resilience, a key skill for thriving at school, university and in life in general. You can do the activities here as well. So what is resilience? Being resilient means being able to bounce back from setbacks and challenges. Think of a mushroom that is able to grow even […]