Going to University?

Are you about to go to university and embark on the best time of your life? If yes, here are some tips on how to survive your first year away from home and more importantly...how to survive being a fresher!

1. Say goodbye to your sleeping pattern - being in halls of residence you will not get to sleep until the early hours and wake up mid afternoon. Its normal to be woken up to blasting music and noisy flatmates
2. Get used to being poor - you're a student, therefore you will have no money!
3. The fire alarm is your new wake up call - it's ridiculous how many times the fire alarm goes off, so be prepared
4. Decide on whether to spend your money on food or a night out
5. 'Freshers Fifteen' - if you don't eat healthy and exercise regularly you will gain the freshers fifteen. Fifteen pounds!
6. Don't eat on nights out - this is when the fat from the pizza or kehab take-aways will stick to your stomach and it will be incredibly hard to get rid off
7. You will go with a full dining and cutlery set and be lucky to leave with anything - people take things, you've been warned
8. Don't leave any decent food in the fridge EVER - especially on nights out
9. Clean your room and bed sheets - it makes a difference
10. Contact people on your course before going - its nice to go and already know people and arrange nights out to get to know one another
11. Register with your doctor - this is vital! I came down with freshers flu and knowing that I was registered with a doctor if I needed to go or there was an emergency made things better
12. Lock your door when you go home or you may come back to find the whole room covered in tin foil, wrapping paper, balloons, the list is endless
13. Don't be alarmed to find random people sleeping in the corridor/kitchen/bathroom etc after a night out
14. You will hate at least on of your flatmates
15. Do not hook up with your flatmates - awkward
16. It's normal to spend a whole day in your pyjamas/onesie in bed watching a whole tv series
17. You're kitchen will look like a bombsite almost everyday
18. Not having enough money for laundry and end up washing your clothes in your bathroom sink
19. 40% is the new 80% - you might not agree with this now, but you soon will
20. A night out will never be a quiet one - you say you're not drinking much but who are you kidding?
21. You will drink anything, and out of anything
22. Having a shopping trolley in your flat is common
23. Don't take your whole bedroom - you will not have enough room. You're bedroom is literally the size of a box.
24. Go all out on fancy dress nights - if you don't you just look like a tit
25. Decorate your room - this makes you more at home
26. Your accent will be made fun off almost all the time
27. Have fun - university is supposed to be the best time of your life
28. Join in as many activities as possible - you will get to know more people
29. Explore your surroundings
30. And finally...don't drink too much