The next thing that comes to my mind when I think about freshers week, and it is supported by my day planner entries, is all the inductions and orientations, registrations and welcome meetings I had to go to! They are never ending, and because you have to do it all twice once for the central University and then again for the school of study, in my case Aston Business School, it seems to be very repetitive. A piece of advice I wish I had been given before I started enrolling- wear a comfy pair of shoes and take a pillow, because you will be doing a lot of queuing, or sitting down in lecture halls :( On the plus side, I did finish the week feeling as if knew absolutely everything I needed to know about being at Aston, and the people I should speak to if there was something I didn't know. Looking at my diary now, I had lots of times penciled for different demo's being put on by the societies and sports club, I don't remember going to any of them I was that busy with other stuff!
Moving towards the end of fresher's week, most of the partying has already happened, a lot of people have discovered what a real hang over is, and fresher's flu (something I'll dedicate a blog to soon) is rife! However, even after all of that, I was still expected to attend fresher's fair. I had read up about this however, fresher's fair is the opportunity to blag as much free stuff as possible all under the same roof. Pens, lanyards, notebooks, mouse mats (I use a laptop but still thought it would be useful), glass coasters, toilet cistern economisers and wooden spatulas strangely enough. I think I swapped a glow stick from one stand for a pint glass from the girls on the Wetherspoons stand- score! Not forgetting me and my flatmate talking to the Christian Union for ages just so we could get a free doorstop, I felt bad afterwards for conning them, but the doorstop has proved invaluable, every student should have one.
I signed up to a lot of societies and clubs that day- big mistake. I spent a lot of money on membership, some for societies that I didn't even start to attend. Looking back I wish I had taken my time, and worked out what I was really going to be able to commit myself to. I still get all their email bulletins though, I really should speak to someone about that :P
Next time lectures!
Moving towards the end of fresher's week, most of the partying has already happened, a lot of people have discovered what a real hang over is, and fresher's flu (something I'll dedicate a blog to soon) is rife! However, even after all of that, I was still expected to attend fresher's fair. I had read up about this however, fresher's fair is the opportunity to blag as much free stuff as possible all under the same roof. Pens, lanyards, notebooks, mouse mats (I use a laptop but still thought it would be useful), glass coasters, toilet cistern economisers and wooden spatulas strangely enough. I think I swapped a glow stick from one stand for a pint glass from the girls on the Wetherspoons stand- score! Not forgetting me and my flatmate talking to the Christian Union for ages just so we could get a free doorstop, I felt bad afterwards for conning them, but the doorstop has proved invaluable, every student should have one.
I signed up to a lot of societies and clubs that day- big mistake. I spent a lot of money on membership, some for societies that I didn't even start to attend. Looking back I wish I had taken my time, and worked out what I was really going to be able to commit myself to. I still get all their email bulletins though, I really should speak to someone about that :P
Next time lectures!
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