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Student life
Summary: Advice on moving away from home, Freshers' Week, keeping fit and healthy, making friends and surviving life in a student house.
Student life can be hectic, especially when you've just started a new course. If you've moved away from home to study, read our tips on how to survive the first term, stay healthy, and enjoy going out and socialising.
Getting started
Survival tips
Stories from students
Blind and partially sighted students share their secrets of a fun and rewarding study experience.
- The first term
- Making new friends
- Living in a student house
- Maths undergraduate and webmaster - James' story
- Life at university - Danielle's story
- Cooking - Mark and Emma's stories.
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Content author: studentsite@rnib.org.uk
Last updated: 20/10/2008 16:12
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Gemma's story - while at university Gemma volunteered as an events assistant in a charity. Being partially sighted, she faced some challenges working in a paper-based office. "The positive response to me asserting my needs has helped me feel more confident about the future." Gemma is also "convinced that employers recognise work experience as essential" and saw it as a great opportunity to develop new skills. Gemma's full story
