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I NEED help with finding accomodation that I can afford

I NEED a way to find a suitable job for me as a student

I NEED more alternatives to manage my finance in order to afford other essentials
I NEED a way to afford my school fees

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Struggling with the emotional burden of financial stress and the pressure to meet academic and financial expectations.

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Struggling with the emotional burden of financial stress and the pressure to meet academic and financial expectations.

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Limited job prospects for international students, with restrictions on the number of working hours and types of jobs available.

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Limited job prospects for international students, with restrictions on the number of working hours and types of jobs available.

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Which expense is the most challenging to cover on your regular basis?

Rental Fee

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Skip sleep time so can have time to study

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school fees for international students is 11k per year (20k without grant)

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So for me I have to pay like around 600 a MONTH for a common share room. So with that money right if you’re a local then you can just get like uh your own 1-room, with that amount of money but here, us cannot.

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Improvement – need more part time jobs coz most jobs are only for citizen and PR

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But here right, like even when you get home you have to do like everything by yourself. Do the laundry, cooking or everything

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it’s also about SP scholarship. So like they offer, and then you open the letter but then they said “oh it’s only for like PR and Singaporeans” and then you feel like *gasp* what is this

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the amount of bursary we get is SO LOW

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In weekend some my friends are watching lecture videos and I can’t do it coz of work.

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I have applied for 7 CCA activities but only got accepted in 4. The other 3 didn’t accept my application.

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Scholarships are usually open only to citizens and PR. International Students have very less chance to get a scholarship.

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SP has a thing where they don’t like.. want to give MUCH opportunity to international students

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So they have like different culture and different like quite different from me ah and then it’s quite entertaining to like just be like being around them

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you know the politic condition in Myanmar, so like I didn’t have like much choices, I just have to live here

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I look up to my cousin, like my oldest cousin.

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since I’m year 2 right, I don’t have much a lot of free time like it’s either work or study

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For example like the things that I use like the basic thing for like the soap for laundry, like toothpaste

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My home and work bit far away so every day I go work I have spent 1 hour 30 minutes to travel.

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Increase room vacancies and provide affordable on-campus dorms to reduce student travel and transportation costs.

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Increase room vacancies and provide affordable on-campus dorms to reduce student travel and transportation costs.

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The school fees so much higher compare to Citizen and PR.

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The school fees so much higher compare to Citizen and PR.

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I find my own money so like I start… a new habit of going shopping a lot.

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limited amount of scholarships pays for international students.

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I need to work to earn money to satisfy my basic needs.

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I always get anxious at the end of the month.

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Student Accommodation at least for first year students it will  better for us.

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Student Accommodation at least for first year students it will  better for us.

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I am working part time job to cover my school fees and other expense by myself.

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even the notebook bursary for local students only....

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In semester days I only work on weekends and in holidays I  almost work on every day so I can save money and use it later in my semester days.

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Question: Could you tell me about a time when you felt overwhelmed and how you managed to overcome it?

Okay the thing about it is that it’s not about a time it's like it’s so many times already

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Temasek you can have like full scholarship

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I actually work for like over 10 hours a day so then they have the rule where you cannot sit down

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I couldn’t finish like a lot of times I couldn't finish then I will feel like super upset and some time like around the exam weeks then I’ll be like super overwhelmed

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Singapore polytechnic has to give international students engineering scholarship

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Question: So you’re looking to get a job here right?
Yes

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I’ve seen so many like students like international students come here get a degree but then they go back home

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if- if either like I can get like a good job? Like is it- like a- it’s like a certain thing that I can get a job here or like that

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Need more scholarships for international students

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Need more scholarships for international students

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I want to do my own business to earn extra income.