Student loan just dropped. Do not let freshers week eat it all.

The loan lands, it feels like a fortune, and freshers week is doing its best to make it disappear by Friday. This builds a zero-based weekly budget across rent, food, travel, study costs, social and a small emergency buffer, in actual pound amounts, and flags the weeks you're most likely to overspend. For making the instalment stretch the whole term, not the first fortnight.

My student loan instalment is {LOAN_AMOUNT} for a {TERM_LENGTH}-week term. My fixed term costs are {FIXED_COSTS}. Build a zero-based weekly budget allocating every pound. Categories: rent and bills, food, travel, study costs, social, and a 5% emergency buffer. Show weekly pound amounts. Flag any week where I am likely to overspend based on typical student patterns (fresher events, end of term). Pressure-test totals before delivering.