Best advice you could give to a fresher?

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Reply 40

Krebs

You better bring your wellies

Spoiler

Reply 41

mermania

My advice is to follow religiously and unquestioningly all the contradictory and mutually exclusive advice you will receive in this thread.

Reply 42

GodspeedGehenna

Original post by SpiritedAway

I never got freshers' flu :s-smilie:

(although maybe it's hard to tell because I had a cold before even starting uni, and so was ill with that for the most of freshers' week :p:

Then you were a CARRIER.

Reply 43

Jordanaimee

Original post by Comet Andromeda

oooo SNAP! im going to do biology too! if i ever make my offer that is :sigh:

AWSOME ! hahaha , im sure you will :smile:

, best of luck ! :biggrin:

Reply 44

SOTV

get drunk and shag around

Reply 45

Stressworthy

Ah, freshers. What a year. Sad it's over. But I'll just have to echo what everyone else has said, really - MAKE THE MOST OF IT. In whatever way you see fit - make sure you're always doing something you like, and chances are you'll therefore make like-minded friends.

Reply 46

sundogs

Original post by GodspeedGehenna

Not possible. You've got thousands of students flying to the same place from all corners of the globe crammed into lecture theatres and halls.

You're gunna get ill. The first few weeks you'll struggle to hear the lecturer over the coughs and sniffles.

you say this but i didn't get freshers flu and i don't have a great immune system at the best of times....
(that said i was one of the lucky few!)

Reply 47

myblueheaven339

My best advice would be to not overwork yourself. In my first year I got a really bad viral chest infection, but I still pushed myself to got to all my labs/lectures etc, as well as not wanting to miss out on nights out, and I ended up with a post viral fatigue which lasted a couple of months. Do your best to work hard and to have a great social life, but not to the point where you make yourself ill.

Reply 48

tufc

There's a TSR article on Fresher's week, which can be found here

Reply 49

SamGee

Right this is all based on my first month at uni.

- Make sure you make as many friends as you can in freshers! They'll be with you for a long time through thick and thin! They're your new best friends!

- Enjoy yourself in freshers week! Drink lots and party hard! Just dont try and fall down some stairs due to excessive drinking like i did, on the otherhand DO SO! Its a good way too meet new people :wink:

- Go check out freshers fairs, get some free pens and crap like that! students love pens!

- Dont drink so much in the first week that when it comes to starting lessons all you want to do is sleep, i didnt make the best first impression with my law lecturer! basically turned up to the a lecture 10 mins late in trackies and a football shirt im ashamed to admit i slept in as i ran like the wind to my class!

- Dont be pressured into anything you want to do! My friend found himself on stage in walkabout kissing another male on tv for a free drink! We've never let him live it down!

- DO check out all the social hubs! Dont leave out little bars and shops and so on till near the end of your first year or something, you'll find great places to hang out and you'll regret missing out all year!

- HAVE FUN!

i hope you enjoyed my slight attempt at a humorous round up, based on my freshers week!
Enjoy uni its nothing to be scared of i was terrorfied and it turns out uni has been the best year of my life to date! Make the most of it!

Reply 50

lovers in japan

Don't worry about making friends with everyone, don't try, as some people will turn out to be complete bastards, and flatmates are not necessarily going to be your bosom buddies. Also, first year friends may well not be your friends at the end of uni.

Reply 51

Nanpa

Original post by roarbanana

I'm genuinely terrified at the prospect of starting at university and especially the idea of the first couple of weeks. What piece of advice would you give to someone just about to start uni? For example, should you go out the first night or unpack and settle in? Should you bring food with you? Should you throw yourself into meeting people or let it happen naturally? All thoughts and snippets of advice are appreciated :smile:

Keep in mind that you probably wont talk to a lot of the people who you hung with in freshers week at the end of term. So don't panic when it comes about making solid good friends, it'll happen just give it time :smile:

Reply 52

liamcol123

Watching this thread!

Reply 53

roarbanana

Does freshers week have different events each night on offer or is there just one per night? Because I don't like clubbing much but I don't want to stay in all day

Reply 54

DMed

At my freshers week, the Guild (our SU) organised things like pub crawls where you could join/leave as you want, so you go out for a few drinks without clubbing.

Other things included comedy night and quizzes

Reply 55

electriic_ink

Not to read this thread. If you need TSR to tell you how to enjoy your first few weeks away from home that's pretty lame.

Reply 56

Sapientia

Original post by roarbanana

Don't stop meeting and greeting new people.

But also don't be afraid of doing your own thing (i.e. staying in and working) if you have to. People will respect you much more for doing this, than if you follow them on every night out like a sheep and suffer for it.

Reply 57

Sapientia

Original post by electriic_ink

Not to read this thread. If you need TSR to tell you how to enjoy your first few weeks away from home that's pretty lame.

...Or you could give the concerned OP some slack and appreciate that not everyone is like you.

Reply 58

electriic_ink

Original post by Sapientia

...Or you could give the concerned OP some slack and appreciate that not everyone is like you.

That's not quite what I was getting at. I was talking more about the people who were telling the OP that they *should* go clubbing or they *should* join societies (for the sake of joining a society) etc etc.

There's some good, practical advice in this thread (freshers flu etc) and everyone is nervous about starting uni but I think that telling people how to enjoy themselves / socialise is a terrible thing, worse still is listening to that advice.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 59

Sapientia

Original post by electriic_ink

Aight - I didn't actually read the thread. I agree with you, just I doubt it's worth your breath since the OP just wants reassurance. OP will probably disregard all the advice here and their time at university will go any way that it will.