Starting uni in September?

Here is everything you need to know to survive your first year as a student.

1. Get to your uni halls early so you can claim the best cupboard in the kitchen and the best shelf in the fridge.

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2. You’ll be so stressed about making a good first impression during Freshers’ Week but you won’t talk to half of those people past first semester. You’ll meet your actual friends by embracing the weirdo that you are.

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3. Call your parents every day so that when you ask for money they can’t accuse you of only calling when you want money.

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4. Just expect your food to get eaten by your flatmates then you won’t be disappointed.

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5. You might think you’ll make that 9am lecture after a big night out. But you’re wrong.

6. Don’t be that a**hole who does no work for a group project.

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7. Don’t be that a**hole who does all the work for a group project.

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8. Reading Week should probably be renamed Lie In Bed For Five Days Straight Watching Netflix Week.

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9. When you email your lecturers, don’t ever expect an fast reply.

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10. Even if you attend every single class, by the end of the year your lecturer still won’t have any idea who you are or what your name is.

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11. If you don’t want to be asked a question in class, sit close to the mature students. They like to talk.

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12. 40% seems like a pretty crappy result now but in a few months you’ll feel like a genius if you get anything higher.

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13. “I don’t need to write that down, I’ll remember it.” No you won’t. Write it down.

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14. Don’t go to the library with your friends if you want to actually do work.

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15. Don’t go to the library without headphones if you want to actually do work.

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16. Save 50ps and £1 coins for the washing machines and bus fares.

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17. You’ll bring loads of clothes to uni but spend 97% of your time in your pajamas.

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18. Checking your bank balance will never make you feel good. 

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19. Fire drills only ever happen at the most inconvenient times. Like 5am. On a Tuesday. When you’re in someone else’s room and you’re trying to keep it on the DL.

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20. Don’t ever tell your parents when you do well because you’ll increase their expectations.

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21. You could skip a lecture and just read the slides on Blackboard later. But we all know you’re not going to do that.

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22. When they tell you all the textbooks on your reading list are required, they’re lying.

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23. When your friend tells you they’ve done no revision, they’re a dirty lying snake.

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25. You can survive a full week on less than a fiver.

26. You’ll have no money but still somehow be able to afford vodka and new clothes.

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27. No matter how hard you try, you will never remember how to do Harvard referencing.

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28. No matter how much work you have, your friends will persuade you to go out.

29. There’s no such thing as going out and having ‘just one drink.’

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30. It’s possible to be so stressed that you start to feel unsettlingly calm.

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31. It’s possible to have the best and worst time of your life at once.

32. Vegetables are for grown ups and rich people. A bowl of pasta for dinner every night is fine. Kind of.

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33. There’s no such thing as free time anymore.

34. Naps save lives.

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35. Despite spending six hours a day in school and studying at least 3 different subjects, when you get to uni, reading more than 4 pages seems like an unreasonable amount of work.

36. First year does count.

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