| So here's some advice on what happens when you | | | | that the friends you make in the first week will be the |
| get to University or College and your parents | | | | friends you are stuck with for the rest of the year! |
| disappear in a cloud of tyre smoke. Your standing | | | | Freshers week is about meeting other students, lots of |
| there with all the other students and freshers you don't | | | | other students. You will like some of them and dislike |
| know. The campus guide is confusing the hell out of | | | | others. Some people will like you and some people, |
| you and it's all a little scary. | | | | people with very bad taste, will like you less. You will |
| Well, the first thing to realise is that every fresher at | | | | have to live with that. |
| university or college is in the same boat. Now that may | | | | Obviously all Freshers weeks are going to be different |
| seem obvious but it is easy to forget when your heart | | | | and ordered in different ways but most will involve you |
| is going at 1000 beats per minute, your head is spinning | | | | arriving at a halls. You will be given a key to your room |
| and your stomach feels like its rejecting your body! | | | | on campus and allowed to go and make it your own. |
| You will be scared and other students will be scared | | | | My advice is to get settled in and put up all your |
| so don't be fooled by other peoples bravado, its just a | | | | posters, pictures and anything else that reminds you of |
| defence mechanism! | | | | home. Make the room your own, everything else about |
| What you have to remember is to be sociable even if | | | | your life will be new for a while so make sure there |
| you feel like you want to curl up in a ball and cry. Don't! | | | | are some familiar things to help you settle in. Put some |
| This is the best time to make friends but don't think | | | | music on and decorate to your hearts content. Your |
| that your whole reputation at University or college | | | | there you have done it you have made it to college or |
| hinges on the first impression you make and don't think | | | | university, so start enjoying it. |