Freshers!

[Alex]

Well it's that time of year when the new intake of 1st yr uni students are set to turn up at halls all nervous (sp?) and shy, so I thought it'd be nice to dedicate a thread to the freshers week which is just about to start at most unis on monday.

Personally I can't remember much of the first week/month/year, my new chums and I were up to all sorts of mischeif (involving hand cuffs and the fire brigade no less!). Any way the point of this thread is to offer advice to those university virgins we fondly refer to as freshers (hmmm is that bad taste? probably is now!).

My advice is thus:

1) find where the girls are (or boys if your into them)
2) where is the cheapest drink? Probably on campus or the Uni bar, but not always
3) where plays the cheesyest music from "all the years up to the 'naughties'"
4) turn up to at least one lecture per module at least twice a month...
5) don't wory about course work, you can always do it tomorrow
6) watch out for 3rd/4th year students (like me) waithing to prey on the innocense that is!
7) most important of all, if the deadline is tomorrow... go out and get pissed anyway, and go to the doctor saying your ill.

 

[Morty Mort]

AND! Make "blueprints" of other's excercises before handing in your own to copy. OR just rewrite YOUR name on another's paper.

Morten. 6th year student at the University.

 

[Stu DemonD]

Ah, I see Alex is well versed in 'sharking' - cool

 

[Alex]

it has a slightly more literal name where I come from! (first word begins with F and rymes with duck, with a fresher on the end!)

 

[Stu DemonD]

Fresher on the end of what

 

[Alex]

Preceicly!

 

[MikeWhitcombe]

I speak to you from my university house in Swansea!

Connected to wireless network of a neighbour it seems - so that's one bill saved; don't need the ntl broadband now

 

[Alex]

Good student thinking well done

 

[Helz]

I remember at uni my favourite saying was 'FREE - that's my favourite word, CHEAP - that's my second favourite '. Get what you can while you can!

 

[harm_of_will]

I didn't get a Freshers Week. I didn't get a Freshers anything

I got a "Welcome to the uni, now off you go to your first lesson, here's your first assignment" ..... my course started in March 03. Us poor Marchers don't get sod all

 

[dave]

whats a Marchers? btw i got my free photos thanks

 

[dave]

whats a Marchers?

scrap that i guess it means people who start in march

 

[Stu DemonD]

I did get a Freshers week, plus attended many more Freshers Fayres coz I ended up being treasurer of Nene College squash team,lol.

They were great Wednesday afternoons for sports - minibus/coach to another campus somewhere, go on court for about 20 mins to get thrashed, then smoke Marlboro and drink loads, for the next 6 hours before being hurded back onto the minibus... Watford Gap services will never be the same again.

My only qualm was that due to circumstances, I went to college in my own town, so never really left home as such.

 

[Alex]

Ahhhh yes... The most important part of being a fresher is the freshers fayre, where you join loads of clubs but never actually turn up to anything! Yes I did this and never turned up... it's to be expected... If you really want to you can actually attend the clubs I am sure they're good!

 

[arseofbox]

Hmm..I pretty much missed the Freshers fayre last year I was very hungover and got up at 2pm and loafed till 4pm before going in as most places were closing up. Ah well. Might be spending some of the forthcoming one sat in a paddling pool in full gear in the aid of LUSAC...Hmm. Ah Well

 

[JonnyBoy]

I moved back to Sheffield this weekend for Uni, but I'm working in Donny through fresher's week this year
Still gonna go to Sheffield for a few nights out, I'll just have to leave for work at 5am with a bad headache/slight feeling of residual drunkenness...