New Year's Resolution ... 2009
Fed up of breaking your New Years Resolutions?
Well… SORTED have found some more ‘realistic’ New year’s targets for students. You can make your life, as well as others around you, that little better by introducing just some of the following into your life in 2009.
- Spend ten minutes every week straightening up your room.
- If you drink, consider setting a reasonable limit on how much you drink.
- Spend a little less time on Facebook
- Work in extra walking into your everyday routine.
- Do your laundry before it piles up on the floor.
- Whenever possible, get an extra hour of sleep every night.
- Go to your lectures more often.
- Eat breakfast every day.
- If you’re sexually active, always use protection.
- Stop comparing yourself to other students who you think are smarter or more attractive.
- Cut your nights out spending by 25 percent.
- Floss at least three times a week, if not more.
- Take a class that pushes you out of your comfort zone.
- Sew the missing buttons back on your clothes.
- Go and buy SORTED ‘a recipe for student survival’ ; )
Cracking Christmas Chilli
Chilli - possibly the easiest, most fulfilling and tastiest dish available!!!
For 4 people (and possibly some left over for lunch the next day)
Ingredients
1 large onion
500g mince
2 tins of chopped tomatoes
Splash of tomato ketchup
Dollop of tomato puree
Hot chilli powder
1 tin of kidney beans (in chilli sauce if possible)
Plus anything else you can/want to e.g. red wine, reggae reggae sauce, worcester sauce, cube of dark chocolate!
Method
- Dice the onion and fry off in sunflower oil for 5 minutes in a large pan
- Add the mince and brown for 5-10 minutes
- Add chopped tomatoes, ketchup and puree...stir and cook for a further 5 minutes
- Add as much chilli powder as you dare and stir
- Add kidney beans and any of the optional ingredients
- Turn the heat right down to minimum on the smallest ring on the hob and put the lid on the top
- Cook for an hour, stirring every 10min or so
- After an hour, take the lid off and leave cooking for another half hour, or until thickened up a bit (to help thicken it up, you could add some cornflour at some stage)
This should be served with rice and/or pitta bread!! A perfect winter warmer which requires absolutely no cooking skills at all!!!!
Enjoy!
relationship heads up
Here is a relationship tip I learnt the hard way… campus is relatively small. In the real world, your dating failures are unlikely to have an affect on your future dates. But on a Uni campus, where gossip runs rampant, rumors can spread quickly.
For example, if you do something mean or unethical to one girl/guy, it can literally be only a matter of minutes before word spreads through the entire dorm that you can’t be trusted. Also, infidelities are very difficult to hide in a college situation. With so many opportunities for students to interact on a social level it is very unlikely that you would be able to get away with seeing more than one person at a time.
Moral of the story ... do it right!
Fridge Raiding!
Don't scoff the leftovers. OK, I know we all fridge-raid in the early hours, but if you really want to save money you can't afford to eat the next day's food.
Unless of course you're back home with your parents - then help yourself! LOL Just don't tell your folks I recommended that!
Whether you've found a new drinking game, got a sound piece of student advice, learnt a sneaky new trick, or have come up with a new recipe – this is the place for you.
Post it on this site to share it with fellow students across the country.
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Move aside Lambrini and White Lightning cider, we have a new pre-going out beverage in town.
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Lamb Ratatouille
A fancy meal, bound to knock the socks off any potential date.
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Know your cash machines. When you're in a hurry it can seem worth the £1.50 to withdraw from an ATM which charges,
but those precious pounds quickly build up.
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