Coping Away from Home
Below are our 11 articles in the 'coping away from home' category:
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 intimidating, but until you get a feel for the local ...
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. Gas bill. Electricity bill. Rent. Food. By the ...
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. One day you might be attending classes all ...
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 corners, or anything else having to do with ...
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 little while they will forgive you for being busy ...
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 to wear, and if we do it wrong we end up walking ...
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 them. Of course, you always have the University ...
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 leave without hair gel and your younger brother ...
Staying healthy is something for which everyone must take personal responsibility. Students in particular must remain vigilant about their health because they are pulled in so many different ...
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 worry, neither does anyone else. In simpler ...
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 offers tips on familiarising yourself with your home, ...
