Being a student in many respects is going to be B O R I N G. It will be impossible to study 24/7 but I will not have a lot of funds for typical tourist sight seeing, etc. Maybe a part time job would help? As a "mature" student, my partying days are a decade or so behind me and I have no yen to recapture my lost youth. I just imagine a bleak, dreary existence, staring over the Charles Dickens like cityscape, watching it rain, rain, rain, huddled near the meagre supply of heat, wishing desperately for McDonalds and Starbucks...