Coping Away from Home

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

Parents and students both need to make a concerted effort to become comfortable with a student’s imminent independence before he leaves for...

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...

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...

Staying healthy is something for which everyone must take personal responsibility. Students in particular must remain vigilant about their health...

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...

You can’t spend your life worrying about possible emergencies, but you can take a few steps to adequately prepare for an emergency. This article...