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can you walk me through a typical day in your life as a university student?

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Um, so just generally it would be um waking up quite early, um obviously depending on on the time of my lectures or morning commitments, um I'd have to wake up at a certain time, get ready so generally to give a rough time frame it'd be 9 o'clock or so being uni by 10 o'clock, um proceed to stay in uni attend lectures and tutorials, etc., all the way until about three to five o'clock, obviously, depending on my timetable, um I'd get home about four or so after four, um I would destress um sort of settle back into the house and then begin to work on um my uni projects. That's just simply if I have university or. um if I do have work, then it would also be collaborating with work on that day. So after coming home back from work it would be taken an hour to get ready instead of destressing in the house to sort of begin to begin my journey to work and uh pursue that um that that shift. And so that's sort of the typical typical day in my life as a university unit would be either attending uni or attending work and attempting to really balance the two, which is quite hard.

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Do you have a set schedule for studying and other activities or do you just go?

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I've noticed that I sort of tend to have a set schedule for studying and other activities. I would like to go with the flow more so, unfortunately, just work commitments and obviously my university commitments just don't allow that. in terms of set schedule, there's obviously some leeway in between hours if a friend wants me to go out very quickly with him, I am able to cover the flow in that regard, but just generally across the board it's more so a set schedule for sure.

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Have you a struggle to find time for parttime job?

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Yes, of course. all the time, uh universities a very big commitment. I mean, each module, um and generally, most university students across the UK will be taking three modules every semester. Each model requires a minimum, I believe about 15 hours, so if you just do the math, that's a 45 hour commitment every single week. And on top of that, if you throw in if you throw in shift patterns for a part-time job of eight or more over a few days, then you sort of your work commitments and your work schedule increases for about 70 hours a week, you know, so finding time to fit for a part-time job, most certainly, why just because simply of the work commitments and the hours necessary needed, you know? It's it's a very physical and a very sort of labour intensive, even a mental sort of commitment. So, yes, most certainly. I love to pursue more sort of creative aspects that I really like to enjoy just include a range of things, such as just generally taking time off for myself, perhaps going on holiday, spending time spending more time with family, visiting them home and just more friend. So ideally, it would just be having more time to myself..

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How do you currently manage the finance as a student?

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So it's all sort of based towards my my university commitment, so I'd be making sure that I have enough to pay rent. that's sort of the main financial burden that I have. um and then whatever leeway I have left over would be sort of used for leisure. So in terms of how do I currently manage my finance as a student, it would be sort of geared towards making sure that I am meeting my university commitments. Thankfully, I have a job that pays lucratively well. So I don't have um a really big financial concern currently at the moment. It would be more so meeting saving targets, um and investment targets, just off along those lines.

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Have you ever had to cheat between working and studying these financial pressure?

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Yeah, most certainly right at the start of sort of uh at the beginning of my university, um in, uh pursuing my BA, um, uh I had to choose between working unfortunately, just due to financial pressure. I had to pay rent, I had to feed myself, et cet. There was a bunch of other things that took various copious amounts of, you know, uh time and in order to fund all of these things, I had to choose working overstudying. So have I ever been in a situation where I had to choose between working and study due to financial pressure? Absolutely, yes, and unfortunately, I think like most university students my age in my age, you simply have to just choose working, you know, because you have to meet those financial needs. We're doing it off.