Student transitions

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.”


“Budgeting’s strongest incentive: 11p value noodles.”


“Easy, thought I. But 1st essay, graded 'A' at school, failed. And so, humiliatingly and nearly, did I.”


“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.”



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.”


“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?”


“Freshers’ week, talk to everyone, bring biscuits, make instant friends, buy a doorstop, be too busy, eat something, don’t go to salsa classes.”


Find your way around.


“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!”


“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!”



Money Matters.

“The experience of moving in to halls of residence is fantastic!


You will never have made so many friends in such a minute time anywhere else!”


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.”



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.”



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.”


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