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The only problem I had with other students at university was dealing with freeloaders.
Very early on in my degree I allowed another student to read some of my work. It quickly became apparent they were planning to plagiarise it. I warned them not to and nothing came of it, but it was a valuable lesson:

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When writing the post on Avoiding Freeloaders I forgot to discuss another group, whom I have taken to calling cheap loaders!
A cheap loader will present themselves as being overtly helpful during the early stages of your degree course, offering assistance to other students, for instance sharing useful sources of information, revision notes etc.

There is nothing [...]

Developing relationships with university lecturers / tutors is straight forward as they behave in a professional, ethical and to a point, predictable manner.

It is important to remember that university lecturers invest a lot of time producing material for a degree course, and are therefore likely to steer it in a direction that is of some [...]