During University, you'll realise that studying is not just about economics. It's also about your life experience and learning to adapt to new people, new environments, managing your money and a new way of learning.

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Understandably you may not want everything you do to be focusing on your economics degree but, here are a few ideas of ways to incorporate economics into other parts of your life.

Work Experience

Have you ever considered doing work experience, taking a placement year or being an intern for a few weeks? With a few ideas of where you could go and what to expect, this section tries to cover work exeperience with Economics.

Economics Societies

Universities offer lots and lots of societies with a few even offering an Economics society. This can bring lots of benefits, from new friends to knowledge to job prospects. Of course, if there is no society you can always start your own.

For your no-study time, we can provide you with many distractions that still have an economics flavour.