I’m sat here around the pool writing this blog article after my first term of my final year at university. It’s safe to say that this “break” is 150% needed. The reason I say “break” with speech marks is because although I am having a break, I have swapped the typical holiday read for my dissertation topic text books…
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It’s coming round to the time when second year university students start applying or having interviews for a placement year, and most people are weighing up the pro’s and con’s of doing one. Speaking from experience, there are 3 main pro’s and 3 main con’s to a placement year…
During my second year of university I lived in a shared student house with 7 of my friends; so many people, I know! But looking back at it now, there really was 10 hilariously annoying things, that today I can laugh at, but at the time were so annoying *sigh*. If you live in a student house you’ll probably be able to relate to all of these, and if you are thinking about living in a student house don’t let me put you off…
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As you are new to Derby and have probably only seen the recommended places to go for drinks such as Walkabout, Lola Lo’s and Revolution, I thought I would share with you my favourite bar which can easily be missed when walking down Friar Gate…
What is Fresher’s Week?
In short, an alcohol fuelled week to ease you into university life, and help you to mix with people just as drunk as you are.
Fresher’s week is most probably the best week you will have at university. And what makes it even better is that you get to experience fresher’s week every. single. year. (until you graduate of course)
So whilst you are getting yourself ready for university, packing your room up and meeting your new flat mates and course mates on Facebook, I have put together what I consider to be the top 10 things you need to know about fresher’s…
