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[Shaun]

Dont spend any of it on booze, get a job and use your wages to buy booze, that way you control your drinking and control the spending of your bursary gradually throughout the year.

When I sent my SAAS application away I selected the option to get the highest amount of loan avaiable to me, but because I'm getting a much higher bursary than I expect I'm thinking that I'm not going to actually use this loan money at all. Hmmm.

[broughy]

put it in a savings account with a nice high interest rate. the loan money, i mean. that way, you'll earn more interest on it than you'll have to pay on it when you pay it back once you're done. means that when you're finished with uni, you'll be able to pay the loan straight back (becuase you'll still have the money) & you'll make a reasonable profit.