The Ultimate University and College Freshers Guide Part 1 - It's all about meeting people.

So here's some advice on what happens when youthat the friends you make in the first week will be the
get to University or College and your parentsfriends you are stuck with for the rest of the year!
disappear in a cloud of tyre smoke. Your standingFreshers week is about meeting other students, lots of
there with all the other students and freshers you don'tother students. You will like some of them and dislike
know. The campus guide is confusing the hell out ofothers. 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 athave to live with that.
university or college is in the same boat. Now that mayObviously all Freshers weeks are going to be different
seem obvious but it is easy to forget when your heartand ordered in different ways but most will involve you
is going at 1000 beats per minute, your head is spinningarriving 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 scaredMy advice is to get settled in and put up all your
so don't be fooled by other peoples bravado, its just aposters, 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 ifyour 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 thinkmusic on and decorate to your hearts content. Your
that your whole reputation at University or collegethere you have done it you have made it to college or
hinges on the first impression you make and don't thinkuniversity, so start enjoying it.