Undergraduate Student Story: Acupuncture
Kathy has prepared for her retirement by taking an acupuncture course. She tells us how getting over her initial lack of confidence was well worth it… Name: Kathy Hilditch Course: BSc in Acupuncture Institution: London College of Traditional Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (LCTA) ‘I am due to retire in two year’s time (from my job as a barristers’ clerk) and have had enough of commuting. When I thought about retirement, I found it hard to imagine leaving work and then waking up with nothing to do, so I decided I needed to find...

Tips and Traps for the First year
We at Hotcourses have our fair share of university experiences between us, so here are some things we wish we’d read before we started the first year of University First year work ethic Being a student requires more careful time management than at school – as well as having lectures scattered all over your timetable, you will be expected to spend a lot of study hours reading and doing assignments, and you will have to organise all this yourself. Whilst this can seem like an annoying distraction from the important first year business of making friends and generally having a good time, it’ll...