So you’ve just moved in and you’re ready to mingle? Take heed of our crazy freshers mistakes to avoid to ensure you have a good start to university!
Crazy Freshers Mistakes That Are Best To Avoid!
Kissing someone on your course
Turning up to a lecture hungover and tired is bad enough but what you’ll have to do on your first day will only make your headache ten times worse. Lecturers seem to think it’s a great idea to get to know everyone by playing different games and talking about your favourite things. If you can’t even make out what day it is then how are you going to do this? But this can only be made worse when you’re discussing your love for all things sport when you catch the eyes of someone who looks quite familiar.
You’ll spend the rest of the lecture racking your hungover brain over who they are, then it hits you, you’ve got with each other during freshers week, possibly more than once, and now they’re here, on your course, for the next three years. Awkwardly smile at them and pretend not to remember that a few days earlier you were exchanging saliva, and introduce yourself praying they don’t bring it up. This can work, providing the other person is just as embarrassed.
Kiss a house/flatmate
A bit of fun? I mean after all we like a bit of attention and you probably won’t even remember it, but even if both of you try to put this at the back of your minds, someone will remember! And yes you have to live with them for the next nine months, spend most your time with them, eat dinner with them, go out with them, probably see them running from the shower to their bedroom. Yes, you’re going to be seeing a lot of them and the best thing to do is laugh it off, pretend it never happened and before you know it the awkwardness will be over and you’ll be laughing about it in a few weeks time- until someone decides to bring it up in Never have I ever.
Revealing everything in ‘I have Never’
The famous game, a student favourite used as an ice breaker in pre drinks to get to know your fellow friends in halls. Now, a sober person would use this game to their advantage by deciding honesty may not be the best policy in this situation.
However the words ‘sober’ and ‘student’ rarely go together and once a few too many jager bombs have been consumed suddenly it seems a great idea to sip your drink when someone says ‘Never have I ever had sex outside’. Everyone’s done it right? Wrong. There will be a vast range of people at university, all from different backgrounds and some not as ‘outgoing’ as you may have been back home and it’s true what they say, first impressions do count, so try to hold off until you’ve all got to know each other a bit more.
Eating lots of takeaways
You’ve worked out your allowance for freshers week, so why not spend it? Takeaway? It’s quick, easy, tastes amazing and is the only way to cure a nightmare hangover. But seven days (sometimes longer) of eating greasy food is likely to end up with you being ill or obese! Much better to have a go at our 5 easy student meals you can master!
Projectile vomiting everywhere
Let’s face it, as much as you like to think you’re King or Queen of the booze, drinking so much so regularly is more than what the best of us are used to! Apart from perhaps a holiday to somewhere such as Magaluf, Ibiza and the like, no ones as prepared as they think they are! How will your body respond to this sudden influx of alcohol, takeaways and lack of sleep? Vomit everywhere and every chance you’ll have a blistering headache too.