Top Tips

Here are some top tips for surviving your first year in halls. I’ll keep adding to them as I think of them but I hope you’ll find them useful.

• Get some soft furnishings like pillows, rugs and fairy lights to decorate your bedroom.
• Also put up photos of your friends on your notice board.
• Invest in some ear plugs, they are always a good idea, your walls will be very thin
• Do your shopping at discount stores, you can get brand name things really cheaply.
• Do your laundry with a friend and split the cost
• Take advantage of any freebies and student discounts
• Cook food in bulk and freeze the leftovers, then you have a meal for another day that you can just heat up
• If you’re going to watch tv then don’t forget to buy a tv licence. Then there’s always tvcatchup……
• Work out a rota for taking the bin out and cleaning with your flatmates so its all fair