Student loan! what should i buy?

I don't have any money left to buy things with my student loan. In fact, it only covers my accommodation (£4000/year). I have to find money for food myself from working. All because it's based on my parents wages who I don't even speak to anymore.

Got to be 25 to be declared independent though.
 
student loan is a joke.

I get absolutely **** all from them, the absolute bare minimum.


Yet a chap I know gets the FULL grant and maintainence loan, even though he went to a private school all his life.

With his private school education he managed to get decent grades. Our uni gives a bursary of 1000 for certain grades.

And since he is in reciept of a full grant, the uni gives him a bursary of 1000......


Oh did I mention his parents are paying his accomodation.



****es me of no end.
 
I would imagine this is the amount they give you including paying for your tuition fees. So take roughly ~£4000 off then see how much you have left, which is what you will get directly paid to you.
 
That probably includes the tuition fee which you wont see a penny of, you have to pay for accomodation as well.

After accom and tuition you should still get about 85 a week, plus bursaries etc.
 
My mate got £15k from a student loan. He spent it all in 4 months.
Ill be taking out a student loan for next year at college so i can stick it in my savings account and spend it when i need to. I pay £140 on buses every month and about £50 a month on food. so thats £2280 just on the basics at the most. The £15k will have to last me 4 years at the most. Yeah i have a job but i dont think 15k is a lot..especially when your car insurance/course fees will take up all of it.

i don`t drive to college because my dad uses the car to his work but i pay the insurance because its my car + no where to park it. Unless i pay the £1.50 for the carpark what is on the opposite side of the town
 
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Sukh said:
Get a bike?
The buses sound very expensive
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it used to be £1.20 a fare there and £1.50 back...now its £3 there and £4.10 back.

I have my bike licence but i cant get a bike because i already have a car. cant afford both. Car is more practical.
 
Strife212 said:
Your student loan sounds like it works completely differently in Scotland, they would never give you 15k lump sum in England.
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its complicated. Some people get it and some dont. I cant tell you a lot, i just went to my student advisor and he looked over my record for other things and he said i can apply.

http://www.saas.gov.uk/

Thats where ill have to go to get my finance.
 
Set up a bar, then you'll be a cool and as drunk as i am

Then invite everyone to play poker with you twice a week, get them drunk, win the money from them, and then re-stock the bar
 
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