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Panel Discussion for World Mental Health Day

A look into the panel discussion event held by Manchester Open Mind Network for World Mental Health Day

(Healthy) Mind over matter: How stress can affect your diet

We discuss the effect of stress on the body, and how negative thinking can affect your healthy lifestyle

Mature Student Society: What it can do for you

Alicia Love, the Wellbeing Secretary for the Mature Student Society, writes here about her experiences as a mature student and how the society can help

Homesickness: Top five tips for beating the blues

Missing home? Rachel Adams talks about how to combat homesickness and gives her top tips on how to beat the blues and enjoy university life

Volunteering Abroad — good or bad?

Is volunteering abroad just a way to prove your superiority, or is there a real benefit to it?

Meet the new Lifestyle Editors

Drum roll please…the most exciting time of year has arrived, get ready to meet your new Lifestyle editors

Be smart and be safe this Freshers’ Week

With Freshers’ Week looming, make sure you know how to keep you and your friends safe on the streets of Manchester

Staying Safe in Manchester

Here’s how to keep yourself safe on the mean streets of Manchester

The diary of a Manchester Bridget Jones

Think your life sucks? Think again. This writer has reached whole new levels of embarrassing

The Fear

What are you worrying about this year? Lauren Howells knows how you feel every step of the way… and has the advice to help you through

English and money problems as an international student

With over ten thousand international students studying at The University of Manchester, Robert Firth investigates how difficult it is to adapt to living and studying in a different country.

Teetotallers have it harder at university.

With drunken Freshers’ week antics now over, Robert Firth takes a look at what university life is like for students who don’t drink.

The Instagram Effect

Marina Iskander discusses the unobtainably high standards that we set ourselves on social media.

Should you be doing a vocational degree?

A recent survey suggests that more and more graduates wish they’d taken a more vocational course at university. Sophie Lipton weighs up the pros and cons

Career Corner: Maria Hyland

Amy Bowden interviews novelist Maria J. Hyland

Tell me what’s your flavour

Romance is a risky business. Let’s stop seeking gratification in sex, says Rowena Cox-Willmott, and give some love to snacks instead

Moving back home: top tips

Wondering how on earth you’ll cope when you have to move back in with the rents? Claire Morris has got it covered

Becoming social life savvy

Want to see your friends all the time but can’t afford the costs of nights out? Why not try these penny-saving ideas to keep you occupied

Career Corner: Michael Lawson

The place where former Manchester students report back from the ‘real world.’ This week, we chat to research geochemist Michael Lawson.

It’s a date!

Struggling for ideas this Valentine’s? No fear, Beth Currall has your date night sorted, whatever kind of valentine you are this year