10 Things That Happen In Your First Year Of University.
University can be really daunting, with the big confusing buildings that seem to never be anywhere close to each other, the lectures that end up making you more confused, and the never ending workload. It's the place a lot of people will spend a good chunk of their lives, stressed in libraries that always seem to have an underlying smell of exotic food. The place people protest is "The best time of your life!" So, here's ten things that will happen to you in the first year of university.
1. You join approximately 70 societies; of which you plan to go to every party and every free food function. UNI IS AMAZING.
2. You start collecting the free pens that seem just to accumulate in thin air. In a matter of no time, you have enough pens for a small European country.
3. The beginning of the semester is all fun and games until you look at the subject outline and realise the university is playing a really sadistic game with your life.
4. In the first few weeks all you hear in lecture theatres is the painful roar of mass typing every time the slides change.
5. There's mass panic about the first assessment. Have you accidentally plagiarised? How does one reference? What the HELL is happening?
6. Lectures start becoming an optional part of your week, something you might do if you have time, just like sleep or a social life.
7. It starts to get real awkward when your tutor says "What did we all think about the readings?" and then there's collective panic in everyones eyes because no ones done them.
8. Notes become a thing of the past, with every hopeful page of your notebook just stating the date and maybe one sad, lonely sentence at the top of the page. You could basically become an environmentalist with all the paper you're saving.
9. There's that one day when your alarm goes off in the morning, you make your way to uni, and you just think to yourself: "Is this the life I really want or has society just made me think that?"
10. Those last few weeks just become a vicious cycle of doing nothing and feeling guilty and then doing something and feeling overwhelmed. UNI IS AMAZING.
