Student finance: keeping university costs down - Personal Loans ...

If you think packing for a two-week holiday can be stressful, wait till you try packing for your first term at uni. Now that?s going to be super-stressful: what do you want to take? How much of it will fit in the car? You?ll probably get a gentle parental reminder that there will actually be kitchen sinks where you?re headed, so it?s time for a re-think: as opposed to what you want to take, what are you actually going to take?

And then, of course, there?s the money side of things. Now you?ve got your student bank account, it?s up to you to make sure you don?t empty it paying for things you might not have had to pay for before ? but which you?re definitely going to have to pay now. So here?s a couple of costcutting hints to keep your student finances afloat for as long as possible.

Can you, for example, have your smartphone surgically (and, hopefully, painlessly) removed? Obviously there?s more to that little block of high-tech than just the ability to talk to people further away than shouting distance, and for the first few weeks in unfamiliar territory a map app isn?t a bad thing to have.

And on the subject of looking things up, when it comes to textbooks and your recommended reading list, don?t be surprised if, in total, those books would cost more than the GNP of a small African country ? each and every term. Obviously one option is the university library, but you?d have to be very fast on your feet and also very lucky when you get there before everybody else.

Possibly, but then again, another option would be eBook versions of texts, as would eBay ? or even, if you?re happy with notes scribbled in the margin (which might come in useful one day) copies gathering dust on bookshelves belonging to students a year or two about you. And it would be surprising, given the state of most students? finances, if they wouldn?t accept a few quid under the publisher?s recommended retail price for their copy.

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