EmilySarah00 Takes University - A University of Leeds Freshers Blog

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Original post by gcsemusicsucks

Sorry you were ill, I can relate with the coughy sniffly thing, it sucks :frown:

Hope you get better soon! :hugs:

Analysis is actually gross, every single lecture makes me question my life decisions :colondollar:

An open book test :gah:

I didn't even know that was a thing at uni! :gah:

It's very horrible! Especially after 2 weeks :facepalm:

Hope you get well soon too! :heart:

And yeah I agree, most lectures make me question myself to be honest :laugh:

And IKR! I don't even think I had an open test in high school let alone uni! :eek:

Original post by nyxnko_

I'm sorry you've been sick! Get well soon! :console:

But I'm glad you're enjoying yourself! :woo:

Thanks so much :hugs:

Original post by Ethan100

Hey Emily could you add me to the tags please? :smile:

Of course! :yep:

Original post by pereira325

Emily, sucks to hear you've not had the best week.
Personally, I've not experienced a bad flu like that for a few years but depression and loneliness can feel almost as bad, if not worse in a different way. Different pains... physical and mental I suppose.
Glad to hear you made a friend, ish! Hopefully you got her number/ facebook to chat/get more interaction going.
I don't have many friends at uni, but for the couple I do, I'd be very isolated if I didn't meet up with them all the time. Flatmates sound great, but the friends you really want are ones in your course so you have extra reason to attend lectures, and so a boring lecture is a little less boring!
Glad to hear you don't like proof by induction (one of the reasons I didn't want to do A2 further maths :tongue:

) , but it's making a comeback!
Good to see you pulled yourself together to catch up. That's serious work and you did it!!!
I think I said it before, but the only way is up.
I don't know about friends from societies but what I do know is everyone's timetable is different and your degree sounds like it has a significant amount of teaching time, so yeah, friends from lectures/classes in priority!
About the whole partying thing... it depends on who you are I guess! I've not actually been to a party-party yet (awkward!), but it's clearly not the end of the world. I think the deal is finding happiness in the small things in life, and of course, one step at a time. To-do lists are great in that element, so nice work.

Yeah it was a struggle but life goes on! If I'd have vlogged the week it definitely wouldn't have been so great :lol:

And yeah I have her facebook! She's not the best at replying but she's definitely a friend :smile:

But I agree it's so important to have friends, even if it's just a couple, otherwise everything seems so lonely.
Also I somehow did Further Maths and completely avoided proof by induction?! I was so shocked when just about everyone else on my course had already done it and I was the only clueless one! :facepalm:

I'm still desperate to join a society despite it proving a serious struggle, but I agree that course friends are the most important as they're the ones you're around the most! It's getting better though as time goes on :yep:

And honestly parties aren't all that, you just end up with regrets and a bad head and wonder why you went out in the first place, so it's not all bad to not have been to any :smile:

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(Kind Of) Update #4 - My University Room!

This has been a LONG time coming but I'm finally up to posting some pictures of my University Room! It took a fair amount of decorating and it wasn't quite finished when I took these photos however it's completely done in the video so you can see everything there if you want to take the time to watch :yep:

I'm still slightly at war with the colour scheme as it doesn't feel quite as coordinated as I wanted it to (there's just a lot of white and not much else) but I don't think I'm going to do a better job now, I just really regret getting the white photo frames from IKEA rather than the grey equivalents :ashamed:

But anyways here's some photos and then a full on video tour! :woo:

Photos:

Video:

[video="youtube;ipEyzcUSJno"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipEyzcUSJno&t=7s[/video]

Until next weeks update (which will probably be Monday rather than the weekend again.)
- Emily x

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YOUR ROOM IS SO AESTHETIC!! :love:

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Original post by EmilySarah00

(Kind Of) Update #4 - My University Room!

This has been a LONG time coming but I'm finally up to posting some pictures of my University Room! It took a fair amount of decorating and it wasn't quite finished when I took these photos however it's completely done in the video so you can see everything there if you want to take the time to watch :yep:

I'm still slightly at war with the colour scheme as it doesn't feel quite as coordinated as I wanted it to (there's just a lot of white and not much else) but I don't think I'm going to do a better job now, I just really regret getting the white photo frames from IKEA rather than the grey equivalents :ashamed:

But anyways here's some photos and then a full on video tour! :woo:

Photos:

Video:

[video="youtube;ipEyzcUSJno"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipEyzcUSJno&t=7s[/video]

Until next weeks update (which will probably be Monday rather than the weekend again.)
- Emily x

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love your room! praying i get a double bed when i go to uni!!

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your room's so pretty omg

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Good luck with university and well done on getting a place. I wanna do computing at uni too so please sign me up to your tag list!! :smile:

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niamhdoesmaths

Ahhh I love your room!! I can also relate to the fairy light photo wall being an absolute task lol but mine is considerably smaller (and messier :redface:

) than yours is!

I need to visit IKEA by the looks, I’ve wanted some mini cacti/succulents for ages :sadnod:

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Original post by EmilySarah00

I felt like such a failure for not making it into uni every day honestly! But it was for the best because I was so so ill (still recovering and it's been nearly 2 weeks :eek3:

)
I don't know what it is with uni halls and fire alarms! They just always go off :facepalm:

And yeah the weekend was a struggle I'm kind of proud of myself for getting stuff done :woo:

Thanks very much :cube:

I'm pretty sure I can only think of one person I know as a fresher who has managed to get in every day so far...(although tbf I don't know loads, but still fresher flu seems to have hit everyone hard this year)
Or then you get St Andrews just testing them pre 7am until they get out in time :eek:

Did loads more than me at any rate :laugh:

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Soooo pretty! :heart:

Even the blinds match! :gah:

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Original post by EmilySarah00

Yeah it was a struggle but life goes on! If I'd have vlogged the week it definitely wouldn't have been so great :lol:

And yeah I have her facebook! She's not the best at replying but she's definitely a friend :smile:

But I agree it's so important to have friends, even if it's just a couple, otherwise everything seems so lonely.
Also I somehow did Further Maths and completely avoided proof by induction?! I was so shocked when just about everyone else on my course had already done it and I was the only clueless one! :facepalm:

I'm still desperate to join a society despite it proving a serious struggle, but I agree that course friends are the most important as they're the ones you're around the most! It's getting better though as time goes on :yep:

And honestly parties aren't all that, you just end up with regrets and a bad head and wonder why you went out in the first place, so it's not all bad to not have been to any :smile:

Well, vlog when you feel like it right! You're doing it on your phone so wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. Just treat it in the same way as your blog really except the 3d experience is there. A video is so much better because you can see a persons emotions and it just makes it seem so much more real. Plus, it might be easier (and more enjoyable) talking rather than typing. I reckon comp sci keeps you typing mandatorily enough as it is!!! But yeah, that's why I would love to see more vlogs. Obviously there's the convenience for people watching too, and since it's a video it retains people's attention more so than a huge pile of text.

Well, yay for friends.

I encountered proof by induction in FP1, unless I remember wrong (but it was so "traumatising" I can't forget it -joking obviously). Ah well, I'd say enjoy catching up, but that's not likely, so find a way to do it haha.

With regards to the society thing, what do you mean? Are you not in any societies yet? Personally, I'm a fan of tennis/badminton but for whatever reason they're on at the time I have some lecture or class, so I can't even attend. But then yeah, there's all the "cool" other ones, like dance. Not my cup of tea (not that tea is m cup of tea either :biggrin:

), but yeah I'm not the best on giving advice on societies. Especially since I'm like a member of only 2 and I don't exactly regularly attend :tongue:

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To be fair, I'm glad you made your video showing the whole party thing, including the side-effects. Makes me think of the chain smokers song (which I reckon is playing on in the clubs?!). The one party I suppose I'm looking forward to is one for my degree which they have every year- called an Economics Ball. As you can tell it's not literally just clubbing, but a great evening out. I think it's the company you have really can make a huge difference :smile:

And, nice room!

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OMG GUYS I'm SO SORRY these replies took SO LONG I've just never been more busy in my life it's mental!

Original post by nyxnko_

YOUR ROOM IS SO AESTHETIC!! :love:

THANK YOU SO MUCH :heart:

Original post by circleofsighs

love your room! praying i get a double bed when i go to uni!!

Ahh thank you! Try to apply to accomodation with a double bed it's kinda worth it :teehee:

Original post by entertainmyfaith

your room's so pretty omg

Thanks so much! :cube:

Original post by Strawbecky

Good luck with university and well done on getting a place. I wanna do computing at uni too so please sign me up to your tag list!! :smile:

Thank you lovely! Computing at uni is pretty nice not going to lie, so I'd recommend it! And you're on the tag list now :wink2:

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Again very very awfully sorry for the majorly late replies!

Original post by Protostar

Ahhh I love your room!! I can also relate to the fairy light photo wall being an absolute task lol but mine is considerably smaller (and messier :redface:

) than yours is!

I need to visit IKEA by the looks, I’ve wanted some mini cacti/succulents for ages :sadnod:

Thanks so much! Honestly I got the ruler out for my wall and literally did maths to make it neat!

And my REAL cacti came from my university plant sale, sadly the IKEA ones are all fake (but that means I can't kill them :lol:

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Original post by Lemur14

I'm pretty sure I can only think of one person I know as a fresher who has managed to get in every day so far...(although tbf I don't know loads, but still fresher flu seems to have hit everyone hard this year)
Or then you get St Andrews just testing them pre 7am until they get out in time :eek:

Did loads more than me at any rate :laugh:

I've been doing much better with attendance since! Some of my flatmates are getting ill for a second time now though and if that happens to me you'll find me crying in a ditch somewhere :facepalm:

And oh my gosh yeah my friend at Cambridge also had a 7am test and wow that is not ok!

Original post by gcsemusicsucks

Soooo pretty! :heart:

Even the blinds match! :gah:

Thank you so much! :love:

The blinds were purely coincidence :teehee:

Original post by pereira325

Well, vlog when you feel like it right! You're doing it on your phone so wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. Just treat it in the same way as your blog really except the 3d experience is there. A video is so much better because you can see a persons emotions and it just makes it seem so much more real. Plus, it might be easier (and more enjoyable) talking rather than typing. I reckon comp sci keeps you typing mandatorily enough as it is!!! But yeah, that's why I would love to see more vlogs. Obviously there's the convenience for people watching too, and since it's a video it retains people's attention more so than a huge pile of text.

Well, yay for friends.

I encountered proof by induction in FP1, unless I remember wrong (but it was so "traumatising" I can't forget it -joking obviously). Ah well, I'd say enjoy catching up, but that's not likely, so find a way to do it haha.

With regards to the society thing, what do you mean? Are you not in any societies yet? Personally, I'm a fan of tennis/badminton but for whatever reason they're on at the time I have some lecture or class, so I can't even attend. But then yeah, there's all the "cool" other ones, like dance. Not my cup of tea (not that tea is m cup of tea either :biggrin:

), but yeah I'm not the best on giving advice on societies. Especially since I'm like a member of only 2 and I don't exactly regularly attend :tongue:

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To be fair, I'm glad you made your video showing the whole party thing, including the side-effects. Makes me think of the chain smokers song (which I reckon is playing on in the clubs?!). The one party I suppose I'm looking forward to is one for my degree which they have every year- called an Economics Ball. As you can tell it's not literally just clubbing, but a great evening out. I think it's the company you have really can make a huge difference :smile:

And, nice room!

I'd planned to vlog my day today as it was a busy one but I thought of the idea of vlogging around uni and it scared me a little, plus I wasn't feeling 100% so it probably wasn't the best idea! I will do an in depth daily vlog one day though like "A day in the life of a uni student".

I've improved ever so slightly on proof by induction but when I come back to it nearer to the exam I'm sure I'll be wobbly again :facepalm:

I have NOW joined a society that isn't my subject one! So that means I actually have more chance to make friends, but initially the only society I had joined was plain old Computer Science Society which isn't all that interesting. Sports definitely isn't my cup of tea though besides maybe swimming, so I wasn't really planning on joining any sports societies. More info on what I've joined will come on my next update!

Clubbing can be fun but I definitely don't do it often! And if i can pluck up the self control to not drink much it makes the whole experience a lot more enjoyable actually! But sometimes I'm weak and succumb to the alcohol... :oops:

And thank you!

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Lemur14

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Original post by EmilySarah00

I've been doing much better with attendance since! Some of my flatmates are getting ill for a second time now though and if that happens to me you'll find me crying in a ditch somewhere :facepalm:

And oh my gosh yeah my friend at Cambridge also had a 7am test and wow that is not ok!

That's good :smile:

Hope you escape being ill a second time :hugs:

7am should not exist, let alone being out of bed for it :eek:

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