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Freshers 2006!!!!
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Well i know there's till the summer to get through but time is flying by and it aint that far until some of us will be leaving home and heading off to uni.
So i guess it would be nice to have a thread where any freshers could just talk about uni, how your feeling about it? where your going? when your going? and any other questions you may have about anything to do with uni.
Im off to Aston and i can't WAIT!!!:hyper: Birmingham here i come (in 2 months )
So i guess it would be nice to have a thread where any freshers could just talk about uni, how your feeling about it? where your going? when your going? and any other questions you may have about anything to do with uni.
Im off to Aston and i can't WAIT!!!:hyper: Birmingham here i come (in 2 months )
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I really hope you learn to chillax a bit once you get to uni :yes:
Oh dear. A complete over-reaction again.
No I wouldn't. Replicant made an innocent comment and you just over-reacted as usual. I agree with him, hopefully university will chill you out a bit.
Anyway, I'm not arguing with you over it, just making my point.
Not true. Education is not worth shit, if you don't enjoy the social aspect of your surroundings.
Spending 3 years feeling miserable is not an achievement. Uni is as much about social growth as education.
That said, you're entitled to your opinion. I'm just pretty certain, that you'll be proved wrong once you attend uni.
I must admit, though, I'm pretty envious of Goodfella being so excited at going. Maybe I just haven't reached that stage yet.
I have applied for Public Relations/ Public relations and Marketing at University of Teesside(local Uni) and I am just waiting for a decision(only applied last week) fingers crossed because I want it really badly and am excited by the prospect of it(finally figured what i want to do!) and naturally I am looking forward to enjoyinging occasionally *some* of the social aspects of it
I had a great year. If anyone has any concerns feel free to send me a pm or ask on here as I was terrified and nervous on the lead up to first starting uni - you start to realise everyones in the same place and I bonded extremely quickly with the people in my halls and also some off campus and in the others years. Going out on a night out meant I met loadsa people from across the subjects and the years! Of course I obviously always ventured out to make friends, no others motive at all :P.
I've grown up alot as well - just more independant and wanting my own space. I've come out of myself and learnt a lot about myself as well
point proven me thinks, still I'm sure you'll learn to enjoy it eventually
i'm actually excited about it! my brain's bored that's the main thing. i know once i'm stressed out by all the work i'll be like why was i excited?!
i'm also moving house this year into a 14 bed house with 2 of my closest friends and 11 randoms so i'm chuffed about that.
next years plan: work hard, party hard!
replicant never said he did that! just because someone likes to have fun doesn't mean they go out and get completely trollied. you don't seem to have a very positive perception of students.
As for my perception of students, no, it isn't very positive, but doubtless that will change one way or the other in the next few months.
It varies over about a month. The earliest starts are probably mid-September, but some don't start til the middle of October at least - York and Oxbridge for example, I'm almost certain.
I'm going to Bishop Grosseteste College in Lincoln to do Education and English, second attempt at uni, yadda yadda, nowt new there.
I can't wait.
And, in my experience the perception of students as alcoholics out on the piss every night is way wrong. It's not the fact that they're students, it's the fact that they're 18-22 year olds. In any group of 18-22 year olds you get some that go out and get hammered all the time, some that'd rather stay in, some that are a happy medium.
When I was at uni, pretty much everything was a social occasion. Watching telly, cooking meals, shopping for food, you did everything with your mates. The alcohol aspect is only a tiny part of it, really. A guy in our flat didn't drink and never went out (as in, to clubs and stuff) but he still got on brilliantly with everyone.
Soo, to summarise (heh) there's no point having the attitude 'I don't enjoy going out and getting rat-arsed, so I'll struggle on the social front'. 'Cos you'll get there, and within a few weeks think 'God, how wrong was I? I wasted so much time worrying about nothing.' It's not gonna do any harm if you do worry about it like, there's just.. not really a lot of point in it, y'know?
Yeah thats kinda what im looing forward to really, meeting new people. The getting hammered aspect won't be anything new to me. I do that every week anyway. Just the prospect of meeting new people who could possibly become lie long friends. Who knows. When the freshers pack comes through the letter box then i will really start to get excited but then at the same time also bricking it.
But as you say Stargalaxy, guess all we can do now is enjoy the summer, earn some money and just get on with things.