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Credit and Store CardsDon’t go there! Store cards will just mean you have more things to worry about paying, and youcan get student discount in many places with your bodcard anyway. A debit card with a freeoverdraft is a better bet than a credit card, but if you do get one, make sure you pay it off everymonth.BattelsBattels are the bills that you have to pay to College by Monday of 2nd Week each term. Theycover rent, heating, electricity and hall food charges. Library fines, punt charges, boat club dinners(or similar) and photocopying can also be charged here too. If you have problems payingBattels on time, go and see the Student Finance Officer who will sort things out – please don'tkeep it to yourself. The college can often make loans if your student loan is delayed for somereason. Alternatively you can go and see the JCR welfare officers, who can give you advice too.Cutting CostsBuying Books – don’t go out and buy every book on your reading list, it will exhaust your overdraftvery quickly and you probably won’t read all of them anyway. Email your college parentsand ask them what books they’d recommend buying. Look on amazon.co.uk, where you oftenbuy copies with a large discount off the RRP. If you are buying second hand books, rememberthat for some subjects it’s only worth buying the most recent edition; older ones may be awaste of paper and money (not for English, though!) On the top floor of Blackwell’s you can getsecond hand books for 2/3rds of the cost of new books. The college library lets you borrowbooks for a month , and even then it is only a simple online renewal process to allow you toborrow them for longer.Getting a JobDue to the short terms and heavy workload, you will have very little time for a job. The collegedoes offer some paid employment, mainly, the opportunity to work in the bar; not a massivetime commitment (usually 4 nights a term) but gives you a bit more cash in the pot. There arealso thing such as staying in the Christmas vac to help with interviews. Your long vacation in thesummer is probably the best time for you seek employment, as you will probably want a breakduring the Easter and Christmas vacations as well have having to prepare for the next term.LinksA really useful site with lots of money saving tips is:http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/Oxford University Financial Informationhttp://www.admissions.ox.ac.uk/finance/Department for Education and Skills Guide to Student Financehttp://www.dfes.gov.uk/studentsupport/BBC One Life Guide to Student Fundinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onelife/education/index.shtml?fundingtopicsThe JCR
Short for the Junior Common Room, this is where you find something to do when you don’twant to work. There are newspapers galore, including the Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Mail andSun as well as the two student papers, the Cherwell and (OUSU funded) Oxford Student (Oxstufor short). If you’d rather not look at any more words, there’s a big plasma TV with Sky. This providesa great communal area for watching things such as political elections or big sports events.There are also regular film nights organised by the Entz rep.If that doesn’t keep you away from the library, there is the considerable attraction of the pooltable, the scene of much bonding and many a battle last year. It is a paltry 40p a game or 3games for a pound. There is free table football and a tennis table too. Despite injury to some ofthe little soldiers (decapitation seriously affecting the red team’s midfield), the table football isin good working order and an endless source of distraction from education. Also, for those wholike sport but prefer to play it electronically, the Wii has prime position amongst our other gamemachines.The quiz machine has a cult following, and rather like a cult leader, it takes money from worshippingmasses and offers only dubious enlightenment in return. Some will argue that it is generousto a select few but generally it only pays out after the guy before has put in his studentloan. There are many such people though, so it may one day be your lucky day…The BarThe bar was newly rebuilt and refurbished recently; unlike many other colleges, it is fully student-runand staffed (look out for jobs advertised each term which will beef up your bank balancea bit), and a great place to start a night out or just go for a quiet drink in the evening witha couple of friends. The bar has a great collection of memorabilia on the walls (look out for theinevitable nudity in JCR fun photos) which gives it a distinctive Peter’s character, and the JohnnyFraser memorial garden is a good place to sip your beer/lemonade on warmer days in Trinityterm. The bar is also home to St Peter’s college drink—Cross-Keys, which consists of five shotsand has a unique aftertaste, not unlike paint-stripper!Prices are very reasonable, and any profit goes straight back into the running of the bar, so thatthe managing team can continue to improve it, for your benefit. If you ever have any suggestionsor queries, get in touch with Jonny Torrance (bar manager) (jonny.torrance@spc.ox.ac.uk)who will be happy to take them on board. And otherwise – enjoy it, (in responsible moderation,of course!)The PuntsThe JCR hires a punt from Magdalen Bridge each Trinity Term – you’ll hear more about thisnearer the time. If you’ve paid the punt charge, you can book the punt for free as many timesas your plans allow. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity to use it as many times as possible – it’sthe perfect way to while away one of those rare work-free afternoons, or prove to your friendsthat you really are an Oxford stereotype, as you sip a glass of Pimms.26
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