What are you most looking forward to about uni ?

About to start second year, and so excited to be going back! Looking forward to living with my friends (more about that in a minute), get back to doing the course I adore, getting my independence back, living in a city I love and having all the laughs again!

To all freshers... Don't worry about making friends, everyone's in the same boat! Just swallow your shyness, be friendly, be yourself. Don't worry if you don't click with your flatmates, either. I didn't, but just because I couldn't hold more than a 2 minute conversation with them in the kitchen didn't mean I was lonely/friendless! There's plenty of places to make friends. Societies are a place to start, and courses are, too. I made a ton of friends on my course, many of which I can tell will be friends for life and I'm living with six friends from my course in second year! In fact, it didn't bother me that I didn't become "family" with my flatmates and was rarely in my flat (other than to cook, sleep and shower) after Christmas because I'd made so many other excellent friends and was permanently with them, and a lot of people are the same! Just relax, take a deep breath, and get talking as you will find people you click with (coming from someone who was a social outcast pretty much at secondary school!)

Best of luck!

Thanks for sharing your experience, that's made me feel a lot less nervous! X