So its been a whole year since I found myself packing up my life into an impressively or depressingly small amount of boxes and hauling myself off to university.
I have to admit that I have learnt an extraordinary amount about the real world during this time and as a lot of people are just starting on this journey I thought that I am pretty qualified on giving some fresher do's and dont's!
DO be very careful with money, I wish I had been told just how expensive simple things are when you need to buy them... Toilet roll for instance is something that I never thought would cost as much as it does!
DONT believe what you have heard, every single fresher is different and there really is no pressure to become a social butterfly. If you would rather stay in and read a good book, do. But make sure that you do go out and make friends, these are your allies if you need someone to join you for a late night library session they will be there.
Leading on from that last point DO utilise the library, my university has a 1am closing time and it is a life saviour especially when you need to pull an late night with no distractions as anyone at the library at 1am is definitely there for the same reason as you!
So they say that the friends you make in university are friends for life, however DONT be afraid to become friends with someone that you normally wouldn't. my flatmate is the person I thought I would avoid due to my very small if not non existent social skills. However the parts of her I thought I would disagree with the most, actually make me a better person. Anyway enough about her, she already has a big enough ego.
Really I wouldn't change a single thing about my first year at uni, but I do wish someone had told me to focus less on the horror stories and embraced it a little more.
