many of you will be coming here for your september intake so i thought to share with you some of the
advice for the initial days these are some of the things which i wish i knew before i came here in
the uk during that time there weren't much of the videos so i still regret like so this video is up
for you guys so these are some of the advice for the initial days i think the very first thing is
you need to clear out your priorities that why are you coming to the uk in the very first place
it could be like few reasons the very first reason could be maybe you're coming here for
the studies so if you're coming here for the studies that's your priority
that's the best thing that's the best mindset you can have that you need to focus on your studies
the second thing is a lot of students come here just for earning the money
so if that's your priority i just want to let you know that you can earn money in the short
term maybe during your student life you can like sort the things out and maybe you can
earn a lot of money but after that one year of student visa you need to go back to india
or any other home country you're coming from because here in order to like survive in order
to like extend your residence you need to switch your skilled worker visa after one year of student
visa right otherwise you've got post study work visa again you can stay two more years for post
reviews you need to go back to your home country or otherwise you need to switch to
skilled worker visa so your eventual goal has to be to switch to a skilled worker visa so my
so that's what i'm saying you you can earn the money but only in the short term so it won't work
in the long term so that's your priority just be aware about this watch out and the third thing is
i've seen a lot of people who come here they just like are busy in the partying and just like all
the time with your friends so i just wanted to let you know again your priority has to be
really in place like if you're coming here for the studies only then you're going to have a
good future if all the time you're just starting with your friends like you won't be able to focus
that much on your studies so make sure you need to clear that out your priorities the first property
in my opinion could be your studies that's like my own kind of experience what my experience has been
the second priority should be your work it could be your part-time work so that you can
pay your living expenses you work 20 hours a week not more than that like even 15-20 hours
should be a should be like a good kind of for hours for you it will equate to around 80 hours
in a month and you will be able to make around 700 to 800 pounds per month which will be helpful for
you to pay your living expenses so that's like should be a second priority the third priority
could be yes socializing with your friends so this was my very first advice i want to move to
the second advice in this video so the second advice is that you need to focus on your goal
now in order for your goals so your goal could be let's say i came here to do working mystery course
so my goal was to actually become a scientist in the long run it's like like after like four years
now i'm a scientist eventually i've got my skilled worker visa so i was really kind of focused on my
goal right i mean i was doing other things i was working i was doing xyz things but my focus for
the goal remain the same like if i did chemistry my goal was to actually become a scientist right
similarly for you if you're coming here to let's say data analytics so your kind of mindset would
be to become like data analyst right if it is business analysis business analyst right if it's
a ca you want to become a ca if you say mba you want to become a manager so make sure your goal
is really clear because if your goal is clear only then you'll be able to start networking
with the people because like if you know the goal as if it's scientist then i'll be going through
linkedin and i'll be connecting with the other scientists like in my own industry which will
be really helping me out to like discover like what are the opportunities in that specific field
so it's really important to focus your goal and then work on it by working i mean the networking
can do it through linkedin then again you can watch some of the youtubers like youtube videos
like i'm a scientist so anyone who wants to do chemistry they can get in touch with me i can
share my own experience like what's the scope of doing chemistry here in the uk so again so
these are things are really really important so the second advice is that focus on your specific
goal another number third advice over here is that you need to socialize now see the life can
be really lonely if you don't socialize if you're just like keeping yourself into one specific room
the student accommodation and you're just going out like just studying working coming back i
mean there's nothing wrong like if you're working that should be fine but if you're only studying
and just coming back to your room doing nothing i just i just want to let you know it it it would be
really bad so what i want to say you is that make sure you come out of your comfort zone you just go
out and explore the world like you're coming here for the international exposure that's like your
major reason that why you're selected to study abroad right so international exposure is really
important so make sure you get out of your room and socialize so make sure there's a fresher even
like person never went to fresher even so that's what i regret so again like try going to the
fresher event so that you can start making your friends easily again like during my time what i
did was there was my university event so it was university of strathclyde so there was an event
so i went there so that's how i made my initial friends again for you try going to some of the
events so that you can start connecting with other people start socializing and again like working
is another opportunity for socializing because you've got your working colleagues like some of
them might be having different skills like most of them are students like if you work in a restaurant
for example but some of them are managers who have already called urban residency in the uk and you
can talk to them and gain some advice from them so make sure that you socialize and just discovered
like the what are the just amazing cultures amazing locations here in the uk so just come out
of your comfort zone and explore and socialize so my number fourth advice over here is that focus on
your assignments now here like assignments every single assignment if you do in your university
it has got some kind of weightage for your overall degree mark let's say if there's an assignment
if it's let's say 10 marks like it will be still having like kind of five percent of your hundred
percent of your overall degree so point over here is that don't take any segment lightly because
like if you lose marks in like this small kind of assignments like you won't be able to get that
distinction as well so make sure that you focus on every single assignment because that's why you're
spending that 20 or 30 likes to study in the uk like for your course work right so your focus has
to be focusing on the assignments and making sure that you're you're going to get good grades also
some of the time i've seen like people students like struggling with their particular assignments
so i just want to tell you the professors are really really helpful so some of our students
really feel shy and they don't take initiative to just like interact with the professor and like
resolve that particular doubt if you're getting or if you're unable to do a particular assignment so
make sure that you're not shy and you're actually reaching out to your professor and asking him
like okay well i've got this doubt please can you help me out and also like i've said you like like
previously as well that like asking doubts to your professor is also one of the way to
start networking with that specific professor so that you can make a good communication and good
trapper with that particular professor so that in future let's say you want to do a phd you can just
express your interest that okay i'm interested to do a phd and if the professor has got any kind of
vacancy in his particular group he can also offer a phd so this asking the doubts is something yes
first of all generally if you've worked out then you have to must go there but even if you don't
have a doubt if you just want to have a discussion on a specific topic again make sure that you book
a time with your professors professors are really helpful like i was able to get a fully
funded scholarship and my professor applied on my behalf so professors like our top notch over
here everyone has got a phd everyone is very very well educated and very helpful so make sure that
you focus on your assignments and if you've got any doubt if you need any help make sure to reach
out to your professors and don't be shy so my number fifth and the last advice in this video
is that also focus on your health because like personally for me i've like really compromised
on my health during mastery in life again this is something which i really regret so make sure
that you're eating healthy food and if it's like if you're overweight make sure you go to the gym
they're really nice stains some of the time is free membership to go to the gym so some of time
is just about how you organize your time so that it allows you to focus on your health so this is
my last advice make sure that you're focusing on your health so well like these have some advice
which i had in my mind so i mean there would might be more but like these are the major ones which
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