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