Things you wish you knew before starting University?

If you study an hour a day outside of lectures you will already be doing twice as much as the average student.

You can easily study hard enough to get a first, go out socialising most evenings, and still spare a couple of hours a day for clubs and societies.

The only people who find they don't have the time for things are the procrastinators who spend the afternoon watching 6 straight hours of daytime tv whilst complaining about how they're far too busy with work to go to x/y/z that night.

that i shouldnt have kept chasing girls when deep down i knew i was gay

that not everyone gets on with their flat mates! So it's ok when you hate all of yours haha

An hour a day? Seriously? I though Uni studying would consist of atleast 3/4 hours a day seeing as you don't always have lectures / you don't always have to be in unlike college...

An hour a day? Seriously? I though Uni studying would consist of atleast 3/4 hours a day seeing as you don't always have lectures / you don't always have to be in unlike college...

An hour a day? Seriously? I though Uni studying would consist of atleast 3/4 hours a day seeing as you don't always have lectures / you don't always have to be in unlike college...

To have the confidence to just get stuck into things. I did quite a bit in my first year by most people's standards, but I probably could have got a bit more involved (though it was tricky because I went abroad for my second year). It meant that by the time I came back for third year, I ended up doing way too many things with societies to compensate (and because I enjoyed them) and that made the academic side of things...interesting at times.

I find your signature hurtful :[ My name isn't girly!

I have been warned of exactly this. Hope everything goes well if you decide to return

You have an insane amount of time to study during the week.

If you work 9-5 every day (apart from wednesday afternoons). YOU WILL GET A 2:1 or a 1st.

Work then and you'll have plenty of time to do everything else and you'll be miles ahead of everyone else.

I wish someone had told me.

Cheers Planning on returning next year to study psychology, will definitely be putting the emphasis on studying rather than partying this time around.

You always had to be in college? :/ did you somehow manage to fill up your timetable completely?

Same for me, we always had to be in for registration which started at 8:30 regardless of what time your first lesson was. We could then go home after our last lesson of that day, but even then my days never finished till last peroid, so most of the time I ended up staying in school for like the whole day

Same for me, we always had to be in for registration which started at 8:30 regardless of what time your first lesson was. We could then go home after our last lesson of that day, but even then my days never finished till last peroid, so most of the time I ended up staying in school for like the whole day

It was like that for me at school (sixth form) but not at college because I stayed for year 12 and then decided to do something else.

At school we had to register for all of our lessons and at morning, beginning of lunch time and at the end of the day even if all we had was 2 morning lessons that day or if we didn't really need to be there until lunchtime. The only people it affected were the ones like me who wanted their ema though. The school didn't really care that much if most of the time you were only going in for lessons but you wouldn't get ema which sucked.

At college you just went to your lectures which would be crammed into 3 days for most courses. On our course if you weren't going to be in for a lecture all you had to do was text someone in your class to tell them you were ill or whatever and they would pass the message on to all the lecturers so that they'd mark you in as being an authorised absence. Providing you didn't have any unauthorised absences then you'd get your ema. Just before the academic year finished they brought in a new system whereby you HAVE to ring the absence line and the lecturers don't have the power to authorise your absence. Apparently it was because some lecturers were being pressured by nightmare students to make them look good on the register when they just weren't bothering to turn up.

I personally found that the school might say that you'll be treated like an adult in sixth form but in reality - it doesn't happen! They still want to know exactly where you are all the time, parents evening was compulsary and you get letters sent to your parents and all that crap. One of the reasons why college was so much better.

Our college was a lot better for treating you like an adult, but they still requested meetings with parents of you were having or causing too many problems. That was only used as a last line though, rather than the first measure taken.

This was posted from The Student Room's Android App on my E15i, because I'm probably at work.

I still think it's wrong. Especially if you're 18. At my college they didn't contact your parents without your permission and they held a parents evening but it was entirely your decision whether you wanted them to go or not. I don't know if that was because almost everybody in the class was over 18 but they didn't bother getting parents signatures from the under 18s who didn't go to it. Under 18s had to have a signed note from their parents if we were going on a trip or watching an 18 rated film and one time when we used our own blood for an experiment.