Hello friends, these are all things that happened to me in my first week of university last year. I thought it was only I who had these experiences and that I was therefore doing Freshers wrong. But when I asked around, one or more of these things had happened to every single one of my friends. So, although if any of the mentioned below happened to you in your first week and it may seem that you are doing Freshers wrong, don’t worry. You are doing it absolutely RIGHT! As it is the best film and can be applied to all situations. I have chosen to use Mean Girls to help me.
You will be aggressively flyered by a parade of promoters outside the library. In the first week you will still have your deer-in-the-headlights-look; these promoters can tell. Like horses, they smell fear. You will most likely come away with fourteen flyers for everything ranging from Dominos Pizza to a night for the obscure deep house music you have yet to discover. At first you may well love these people, as they are all giving you free stuff, like how Queen Bey loves her fans. By week two however, you will most likely be pulling a Britney and beating them away with your umbrella.
As a self catered student you will probably forget to buy food or spend all the money that you had for food before your student loan came in on Echo Falls and taxis. When ‘carb-loading’ before a night out you will become amazingly creative, given that the contents of your fridge is now Ketchup and Lurpak.
If you can’t strawpedo a VK- you will learn. The state of being ‘tipsy’ does not exist in Freshers week. You’re either hungover or smashed; your new-found capacity to consume alcohol will literally amaze you. Just when you think your body can’t handle another Tequila shot you find yourself downing a Sambuca.
You will get the dress code wrong for at least two nights out. Me? I turned up in a backless dress with heels and a sequin clutch to a night where everyone was in trainers and bomber jackets.
You’ll regret making friends with that overly keen girl on the Facebook group. It probably won’t take you long to realise the initial friends you meet will not be the ones you keep. Try and ditch the annoying ones early when groups are still so fluid that no offence can be taken. If you can’t figure out who the annoying one is, it’s probably you.
Prepare to become political and opinionated. Feminism at the moment is increasingly fashionable. Seriously, it’s everywhere from Miley to John Legend, hop on the bandwagon gang. It would seem that if you are female and at university you have to join the movement.
Your student card will fail to get you into the Edward Boyle Library because you haven’t yet pinpointed the machine which screws you every time. There will probably be a bunch of narcissistic, third year, dissertation-writing students behind you who will look at you as if you are Janis Ian.
But in the end everyone is new to it all during Freshers so just go with the flow and it will be fabulous. Trust me.
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