Hey guys and girls,

Good news today. I have the go ahead to get a book out there and should be out by September for all the new freshers to soak up.

It’s going to be the ultimate guide to student life, with a fresh approach to how to attack life as a student and get the most out of University life.

This means we have changed the competition yet again and unfortunately cut the prize fund for the moment as I have blown all my money making the site and testing some advertising. With your help we can have a bigger prize fund, you got to donate 47p or join that survey site.

See here for more details on the new competition

All you have to do now is write a few words in the right part of the forum (here) and you may well get your writing published for future generations of students to read. As well as getting some cash and a new CV.

On a side note, I love Karl Pilkington.

Watch this video…

I am sure that Karl did the world renowned podcasts with Ricky and Steve Merchant. It is rumoured that he is not going to do anymore because people think his real name is Graham.

I can’t deal with this.

Life without a new daily dose of Karl is like being shot in the face.I have started a campaign on the forums to bring him back. Please join in!

Core blimey it’s tough letting students know about a site without a million pound budget to blow.

If you live in the West Herts area, I will be appearing on Radio Verulam 92.6FM for a small interview about the site and what I’d like to achieve. Should be somewhere between 4pm and 5pm.

I also sent out this press release a few days ago to try and pick up some momentum and introduce new students to the site.

The forums are taking shape nicely and more and more people are joining up on the email (we only send out a couple of times a month with a bit of info and deals).

I feel that if we are going to grow by word of mouth then I need to add loads more content and useful information on making more money, physical health, mental health, more free stuff and much more. What do you think? (Leave a comment below).

On a side note, the economy seems to be in dire streets at the moment. Inflation is causing prices on everyday goods to go through the roof, banks won’t let us borrow anymore which means we are grinding to a halt. So what does this mean for you?

I think for students it doesn’t mean it’s too bad. We can ride out the wave for the next 2 or 3 years and house prices will have come down and the economy stabilised.

We just need to worry about how much we are spending and not getting in more debt than we need to be. Take advantage of student free stuff and the monthly competition where you can win money! (Shameless plug).

Take care of your cash and join our fight against the crippling student debt.

Stick with us.

PS: I may start doing a video blog soon. So exciting!

Well ladies and gents the competition is up, it’s been there for 2 days and I haven’t had one entry yet! What’s going on?

You get a free professional CV (or voucher for when you need it if you win), plus you could win some cash.

Now, if you’re a student - read this and see if you don’t go mad.

I officially think this government is crazy. How can Bill Rammell, the ‘higher education minister’ dare to say…

“There is no real rate of interest. The student only repays, in real terms, what they have borrowed.”

“This is in contrast to the policy of the Conservative party which is that students should pay a real rate of interest.”

What is this conservative ‘real rate of interest’? Maybe it is something more manageable like 2%

Most of us (like me) are going to be graduating with £15,000 debt, so that’s £720 in interest a year which will compound unless I am earning over £22,000.

This is the same for everyone.

Is it fair? NOOOOOO, it’s not fair.

The government are clearly making money off us and it’s about time we did something about it, something more than Facebook petitions.

I have set up a new forum - HERE - it’s the bottom thread - this will discuss what we are going to do about it.

We will get something done.

GET INVOLVED.

In my vision of WealthyStudent I wanted to clear all student debt, make students happier and richer.

I may have just found a solution but it needs some interaction on your part.

In a few days time we’ll be adding a competition to the site. There will be 2 ways to enter:

• Write a forum post

• Film a 1 minute video and post it on youtube with your top student tip

There will be standard prizes of a fully made up CV (courtesy of the CVCentre) and another prize (possibly from lovefilm.com if we can persuade them).

The prizes will be given to the best forum post and most entertaining/useful video.

The thing is…I want to give cash prizes!

The other thing is…I am a student and I’m very poor so can’t give you the £3000 each that I want to!

There are two ways round it:

• To enter, you sign up with a site and we try and get a 50 pence donation out of them per sign up, or…
• You donate 47 pence to the prize fund

Or you can be a tight ass and give nothing!

We would put all the donations into the prize fund. This means if we can get a couple of thousand students to enter we would have a decent money pot to give out.

We are going to be testing it in a few days. We’ll need at least 100 students to enter or we’ll roll it over to the next month.

Let’s hope it works.

Watch this space.