A fair few students haven't ever had to worry about pesky paying-in slips or meeting up with the bank manager to discuss switching their funds into a high-yield, high-risk offshore blah de blah. So having student advisors on hand to answer all your banking queries can only be a good thing.

It's worth bearing in mind that banks with branches on campus, or in the university town/city, will be geared up towards students and their needs. So if you stick with your existing bank and account for simplicity, only to discover your nearest branch is miles from uni, it may be worth considering switching to a more student-friendly bank branch.

Advisors are on hand to help students with money worries, overdraft extensions, budgeting and generally smile warmly, make you a cup of cocoa and tell you everything is goung to be alright. Oh, wait that's what your mum does.

Suffice to say, often student advisors are recent graduates, so they understand your plight and aren't there to say 'told you so'. If you have money worries or need to extend your overdraft they are there to, erm, advise you and make sure you borrow enough money to get by, without going further into the red than necessary.

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