John Lee Hooker once came up with a nice slice of pop wisdom that few students can afford to leave home without these days. The best things in life are free, he opined, but you can leave it to the birds and bees, just give me money. A degree is certainly not free anymore. Most students try and fill the gaping hole in their overdraft with the old favourites of bar work and retail. But beyond the minimum wage lies the strange, hopeful wild west of well-paid student work.
Coldplay once said that as students they found they had a choice between either starting a band or getting all too familiar with daytime TV favourites like Diagnosis Murder. The danger with getting too ambitious with your free time is that ready cash will always have a seductive draw for the down at heel student that the library obviously often lacks. Something your dons, who have chosen the library over ready cash, can find hard to understand. Be warned.
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