you have no money for food and a 7am start (nursing student) but as soon as someone knocks at your door asking to go out, it seems the best idea ever...
It's not going to be as challenging or interesting as you think. Most of the professors are dumb asses with a diploma...and there's a high percentage of drunks teaching, those are the ones who never go to class on Mondays. Enjoy.
"...that incremental suicide of turning your life into a dream, to make being awake as similar to sleep as possible. Drowsily, lazily, dry-mouth your way through the day's ceremonies, fumble your way back into the dew-bather you never really left, draped in brown, brown now all around, the haze!" - Russell Brand on drug addiction.
"Si ma êkh gûndo piyiamásko...ándo bírto barruno. Bírto, bírto barruno."
-Don't spend all you loan on a car. (yea, someone from my brothers uni did that.)
-Making a full suit of armour from the cardboard from Beer crates is funny.
-Breaking into the newly empty room in your halls will lead to it becoming a second common room.
And climb high to the highest rung, to shake fists at the sky.
Location: London . . . the less awesome one in Ontario, Canada
I lived vicariously through others, so I only know of most these from the experience of others. I majored in English and spent all of my time reading and thus couldn't party.
- Don't spend all of your OASP on alcohol. You WILL regret it, and your liver will HATE you.
- If you don't want it stolen or destroyed, don't bring it with you.
These ones are from personal experience:
- Actually go to your lectures, take notes, and do the frickin' readings. You will only piss people off by not knowing what's going on, and you are only buggering yourself over. Don't be that guy. (I went to school with a few people like this, and the general consensus was that they needed to be punched in the back of the head.) Oh, and if you're like this, the profs WILL make fun of you.
- I know a lot of the posts her have revolved around drinking, but seriously, everything in moderation. We had a student pass out outside and freeze to death on my campus. Drink, have fun, be crazy. But do it safely.
- Join clubs. Seriously. I did, and it was so worth it.
- You will never have this much freedom or this much fun ever again. Embrace it before you have to be an adult.
- You will revert to childhood. You will take naps, enjoy colouring books and crayons, play dress-up, and watch cartoons. Embrace this; it'll clean off that ugly layer of self-important, 'I'm and adult' BS that most people pick up in their teens.
- You will never have this much stamina again; this will be the only time in your life when you can go for three days on six hours of sleep. Go with it.
- Do EVERYTHING. Take road trips. Host a crazy dinner party. Go to guest lectures and plays and independent films. Go to crazy events at your on campus pub. Pack as much as you can into four years, because you'll never get it back, and there is no regret more bitter than realizing that you wasted it.
I know one like that. Someone in one of my friends halls spent his whole loan on Kitkats (yes, the chocolate bar). It was when they had a competition on for something or other...can't remember what. Every time I went over their flat there'd be some kitkats around to have.
Games can be made from anything. For example when in catered halls last year there was the meal card challenge.
We had an allowance of £4.68 for lunch. The aim of the challenge was to buy as many of only one item as possible, for example 45 sachets of mayonnaise or 17 apples.
- Remember to take your keys with you, even if you're just going to the next door flat. Getting locked out and hammering on the door for 20 minutes and waking everyone up isn't fun.
-It's better than school. But only marginally.
-It's nothing like everyone tells you it will be like.
-If you don't live in Halls, you do feel a bit left out.
-You also feel better fed.
-You can actually have fun without drinking. Honestly.
-There are people like you around and that is a good thing.
