Keele Copy Centre

The secret is out! The secret to my success in university was all because of this place. No, it doesn’t offer late night coffee for your study sessions before an exam and it doesn’t have tutors that are warm and supportive to you as they help you discover your inner potential to learn and really understand international economics.
If you were actually thinking the above, seriously, what’s wrong with you! It’s a copy centre. You go in, and make copies. Of paper. Of different sizes.
And that was all it did. But boy did I use it. When it came to exams et al, I was fortunate to have some really smart friends who made some really great notes that synthesized an entire year of boring lectures and size 11 times new roman font (textbooks) into pages filled will pictures, doodles and clear, to the point, notes.
In first year, I almost needed to take out soap because of the amount of photocopying I did at York. But Keele Copy Centre is definitely affordable for the student budget.
In recent years, I believe that it also sells textbooks and any additional readings that a professor would require you to read.
If not, then I found it really helpful to borrow a friends book and stand out side the copy centre and mediate on how I could get access to the same content in the book. If only there was a way to transfer the information in that book onto a medium that would then be your own. If only you could find a way to return your friends book but retain the information… besides reading. if only!
I never found a way but I’ve heard that people who mediate with the desired book outside the keele copy centre have reached enlightenment and found a way ;-D