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Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Welcome to Sheffield.
“I spent my first week as a University student without my laptop. It was Hell.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Budgeting’s strongest incentive: 11p value noodles.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Easy, thought I. But 1st essay, graded 'A' at school, failed. And so, humiliatingly and nearly, did I.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Homesickness, when the car drives out of sight, when the washing piles up, the food in halls is awful, you’re all alone with Freshers’ flu. Everyone gets it at some point.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Find yourself.
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“HE can be more than leaving home - town, school , friends, social, sports, routine disappear so new identity suddenly required.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Do disadvantaged, non-traditional students experience transition in the same way as traditional, middle class students?
How do we offer support without implying we are all ‘becoming’ the same student?”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Freshers’ week, talk to everyone, bring biscuits, make instant friends, buy a doorstop, be too busy, eat something, don’t go to salsa classes.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Find your way around.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“Shared a room with 2 girls and 1 cooker and a shower with 19 girls! Combined Hons. meant studying 3 subjects on 3 different sites and lectures overlapped! Passed 1st yr and left! Interesting experience!”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
“This all has indeed been full of uncertainty, anxiety and insecurity – but then, once here it all vanished! Sheffield is such a friendly and homely city to be in!”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Money Matters.
“The experience of moving in to halls of residence is fantastic!
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
You will never have made so many friends in such a minute time anywhere else!”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Lost?
“My results are bad. On brink of failing. Spend all my time doing music. Chose Physics ‘cos it’s my weakest subject. Need to be the best at everything. I won’t repeat a year. I’ll drop out. Send help.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
A familiar feeling?
“Nobody ever says you’ll end up playing bin-jenga with your flatmates. If the rubbish falls on you, you lose. And you have to clean it up.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
Meeting people who like what you like.
“Sheffield rites of passage: ride the tram to the end of each line, just to see what’s there.”
Moving Beyond Induction: Understanding Transitions in Student Life.
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