Student Life

SCM's top tips for freshers

4 Sep 2024

You've seen the usual tips for freshers - take a doorstop for when you're wanting to chat with your flatmates, get out of your comfort zone and try an unusual society, actually attend (at least some) lectures - but here are some things you might not have considered when starting your uni life!...

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A Level Results Day: Embracing the Unknown

15 Aug 2024

I am an enthusiastic forward planner. Whether it is a spreadsheet, an app or a good old Filofax, lists and itineraries are what gives me a sense of safety and comfort. If I’ve researched thoroughly and made a plan, I can be sure that everything is going to be ok.

When Jesus sends out his...

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A Level Results Day: When Plans Change

15 Aug 2024

If you’d met me between the ages of five and fifteen, I’d have told you that I was going to be a doctor. I had researched universities, spoken to people, watched Casualty every week – there was no way my plan wasn’t going to work, until it….didn’t. When I spectacularly failed my physics GCSE...

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A Level Results Day: What Does Success Look Like?

14 Aug 2024

It’s nearly A Level results time, and if you’re not in the firing line this year, perhaps you remember very recently indeed the trepidation that can precede that day… If you’re already at uni, you might have had some of this year’s marks already or you might be waiting for the dreaded resits to...

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How To Make Your Uni Room Inspire Thought, Reflection and Comfort

28 Sep 2023

Many of you will just have moved, or be about to move into, your university accommodation. Whether you’re returning to a bedroom you have stayed in before, or moving into a completely new one, it is important that this space is somewhere you can be reflective and comfortable to continue working...

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What Do You Mean I Have To Find a New Church?

19 Sep 2023

Going to university is full of a lot of ‘firsts’: moving away from home, owning saucepans, discovering TurnItIn and remembering to buy toilet rolls. It is also the first chance, for many, to choose which church they are going to attend. The deciding factor for where I went as a child was: is...

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In defence of “rip-off” degrees and those who study them

25 Jul 2023

From the Prime Minister who last year diagnosed universities as places “full of people who don’t vote for us” came this week an entirely unrelated announcement that, apparently, too many people are going...

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Dealing with Overwhelm

12 Apr 2022

SCMers in the West Midlands share some of the ways they deal with overwhelm. 

Find the balance

"Finding the balance between noticing when I'm overthinking but also letting myself work out what it is that is stressing me out. I find that naming it helps."

Reach out to...

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Reflection: How lockdown brought SCM members together

21 Mar 2021

The coronavirus lockdown measures announced by the Government urged members of the public to stay at home unless absolutely necessary, prohibiting large gatherings. Having previously headed a local SCM group for two years, I found the prospect of being forced to cancel our exciting schedule for...

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Sending Your Students Well

23 Jul 2020

When you buy an SCM Gift Membership for a student the excitement and anticipation of the welcome pack and the years to come with SCM will (hopefully!) be a joy and delight to them, but in case you want to bless them even further here are a few ideas!

Make a Prayer Hamper 

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