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>>1876692
Don't have any UK specific background, but some good principles:

1. Think about why you're going to college. What's your gameplan? What major do you want? What job will that allow you to do?

2. Work during college is important, but don't let it weaken your post-college plan. Need higher grades/more study time to get into a graduate school? Need to take an unpaid internship to get industry experience? Those long term considerations should take priority.

3. Reduce expenses, because whatever you can't earn from work, you'll have to borrow. You're on the right track with renting a room. Consider pooling with roommates/coworkers, renting or buying a house together. Consider areas with a bit longer commute if they're cheaper to live in. See if there are any discounts for eating at work, since that'll help your food budget. Put together a spreadsheet of income and expenses: rent, food, your typical waiting income, possible student loans, and everything else.

4. As an Eastern European immigrant, yeah, the UK will probably be stingy with welfare. Still, take advantage of any things you can. That incldues both welfare and tax credits. Better you get welfarebux than Abdul.

Make a budget and stick to it.

>>1876780
1. My plan is to use college as a ladder to get to a university. College is basically essential for me because I wasn't able to finish the school year and pass my finals because of the fact that I had to move to Scotland with my father. In my class we had 3 "advanced" classes: math, physics and English everything on a much higher level than other profiles.

2. I'm thinking about something with physics. I liked the subject and I'm fairly good at it. So interships and good grades are a must.

3. I won't have problems with food. My one of my sisters thought me how to buy good quality food cheap and my other sister knows how to cook high protein and healthy food. Also I don't think that you have to pay for college in the UK if you're studying full time. Still the spreadsheet idea is great.

4. Maybe I could get some help from the government. I'm from a poor family, my mother died because of alcoholism and my father had to rise me. So I had some support from the the government till the end of my education there.

Thanks anon

Also it's 1:20 am so my writing is sloppy and messy.

Any other things I need to know?

>>1878376
Google things or post on /biz/ if you run into any specific problems.

Not sure how the European job market is for physicists, but you seem smart enough, you'll figure things out.

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Thanks guys. You're the best