[Smuke]

What do you wish you knew about the Uni/city/course/accommodation before you came to Sheffield?

[archaeogirl]

(Original post by Smuke)
What do you wish you knew about the Uni/city/course/accommodation before you came to Sheffield?

What are the employment prospects of students with a postgrad degree from Sheffield? I have applied for Sep 2012 entry

[Dorito]

Don't wear white shoes in Corp
Never go to Embrace on a Saturday
Doing important assignments the night before is near impossible (and yet we still do it)
You'll spend more time in the IC/Bar One than you will in your flat
You will come to hate the weekly fire alarm test as you forget about it every week and **** yourself when it does go off
The people you meet in Freshers Week are unlikely to be long term university friends

[Dorito]

also,

Your sleeping pattern will get destroyed
You will spend more time creating stupid games with your flatmates (onion cricket!) than you will working
You will get lost in Mappin no matter how many times you've been before

[united.spammers]

The atmosphere in the old accommodation is fantastic
Everything is on a hill
Absinthe is never a good idea
Single-sex accommodation is more likely if applying to Endcliffe

(Original post by Dorito)
You will get lost in Mappin no matter how many times you've been before

So, so true...

[musicstudent]

(Original post by Dorito)
You will come to hate the weekly fire alarm test as you forget about it every week and **** yourself when it does go off

A weekly fire alarm??? *gasp* so then how do you know when it's a real one? I can imagine people just ignoring the alarm after a while.

[Dorito]

(Original post by musicstudent)
A weekly fire alarm??? *gasp* so then how do you know when it's a real one? I can imagine people just ignoring the alarm after a while.

It goes off after a few seconds whereas the real fire alarm just keeps going.

but every week I forgot and it scared me to death! Sometimes I'd even get out of bed and then it would stop and I'd realise it was just the test.

[MusoDrumpet]

A quad vod in Corp is not what it seems. It will definitely make you sick. If you get smashed, you will not survive a night at corp without being sick in the night/morning. If you do, then contact me and tell me how you did it. I will knight you.

[Dorito]

(Original post by MusoDrumpet)
A quad vod in Corp is not what it seems. It will definitely make you sick. If you get smashed, you will not survive a night at corp without being sick in the night/morning. If you do, then contact me and tell me how you did it. I will knight you.

I survived corp without being sick once.

I did wake up on my coursemates kitchen floor at 7am, shaking uncontrollably though...

[MusoDrumpet]

(Original post by Dorito)
I survived corp without being sick once.

I did wake up on my coursemates kitchen floor at 7am, shaking uncontrollably though...

Sir, you deserve an award. Maybe you were shaking uncontrollably in the shock of what happened the night before? Despite the horrendous state of Corp, I keep going back for more... WHY!?

*edit* Spelled more wrong. Whoops!

[chrisharbury]

(Original post by Dorito)
Don't wear white shoes in Corp
Never go to Embrace on a Saturday
Doing important assignments the night before is near impossible (and yet we still do it)
You'll spend more time in the IC/Bar One than you will in your flat
You will come to hate the weekly fire alarm test as you forget about it every week and **** yourself when it does go off
The people you meet in Freshers Week are unlikely to be long term university friends

Lets face it, you need clothing specifically for Corp
Never go to embrace - ever.
I spend most of my life dossing in my flat, though Bar One is also a regular
Most my closest friends are from freshers week :/

[Tpx]

(Original post by chrisharbury)
Lets face it, you need clothing specifically for Corp
Never go to embrace - ever.
I spend most of my life dossing in my flat, though Bar One is also a regular
Most my closest friends are from freshers week :/

Definitely don't go to embrace in freshers. I think it was 2010 when there was a crush there.

[SnoochToTheBooch]

the ****ing hills. hills everywhere. wherever you go, you go uphill on the way there, and then you go uphill on the way home.

[pinkangelgirl]

the sad thing about embrace is the whole concept of it is good, but sadly it attracts the wrong crowds and also the management is useless and the employees are very abusive.

[Sanitka]

What is the "embrace"?

[Tpx]

http://www.embracenightclub.com/about.php

It looks very nice in their photos, but of course it does not look like that on a night out.

[Sanitka]

Hehe, typical
Thanks!
I'm interested in your other "I wish I knew".. !

[Bobbler]

I wish I knew that my 'I work better at home than in the library' was completely fabricated by my own brain and doesn't work.
That Wednesday night Corp becomes standard even during exam time
That I would get horrendously addicted to New Leaf salad bar that even when I was perilously close to my overdraft I'd get a tenner out just for a £2.95 salad
That being opposite the kitchen in a party flat was not as good as first thought
That no one will ever know where Rivelin in Endcliffe will except by the 'ooooh you have your own little pond don't you!'

[pinkangelgirl]

(Original post by Sanitka)
What is the "embrace"?

Embrace is a club which is full of chavs, locals, foreigners and security that smack you in the face regardless of if youve done anything wrong or not.