Here’s
some helpful tips to help you through your year that no one will ever tell you.
Pre-drinks: Back at home, this was never a thing.
You would get ready, go out and get smashed. But now you’re a poor student,
it’s a night out essential and can sometimes be better than the night out
itself. Pre-drinks also involved A LOT of drinking games; the ever-telling
‘never have I ever’ is where you learn that your housemate had sex with someone
in a fast food joint and ‘The ring of Fire’ where you end up drinking shot upon
shot of absinthe (really would not recommend). You will live for the pre-drinks
– however your hangover the next day tells a different story.
Don’t buy text books straight away: This is definitely one for the
freshers. You may think you’re smart getting all your books in early but out of
those 15 you've brought, you’ll probably use a grand total of two. The library
is a god send so use that as much as possible! Think of the jagerbombs you’ll
be missing out on if you get that ‘important’ text book and then realise you've
been using it more as a coaster than a research method.
You never sit at the front of the
lecture theatre: Ok, this does vary through the year. As fresher’s, you may
want to make an impression and sit at the front but as the year progresses (and
you begin to experience nights out in the week) you slowly shuffle to the back.
The only ones that sit at the front are either late and have nowhere else to
sit or the ones that you wonder ‘how the hell did you get on this course?’
