Aaron Loose When I moved down to Exeter as an underweight bookworm last year, armed with little but a Wilko’s crockery kit and the dream of becoming a dashing student of the Humanities, nobody ever warned me about homebrew vodka. Let me be the first to tell you: if your new flatmate offers you a […]
first year
OOD – Freshers Suitcase Compilation
With the dreaded last minute suitcase shoving upon us, you’d be forgiven if you condensed your uni life down to one travel sized suitcase. Not having to sit with a box on your lap for a three hour drive sound good? Not spending four hours unpacking your belongings at the other end seem appealing? The Exeposé […]
Catering to your tastes
As a third year with diminishing free time, when I’m waiting for my food to cook in the evenings I find myself looking back wistfully on life in catered halls. I spent my first year in Pennsylvania Court, which I loved for various reasons, quite a significant one being the food. Let’s start with the […]
Doritos to Deadlines: a story of survival
Whether you’re learning that it’s not possible to sit through eight hours worth of lectures after an hours’ sleep, adapting your GI tract to cope with only eating pasta, or somehow getting used to living with a flatmate who combines Doritos with vodka, every student’s first year is full of weird and wonderful experiences that […]
Forever friends?
Confession: my experience of making friends at university is very different to many of my home friends’. Now I am now a third-year and I am still completely besotted with my flat-mates who I was forced to live with in first-year (thanks to the very random accommodation process). I got along with my flat […]
Great Expectations
Arriving at your University Of Choice, which, considering, is probably Exeter (if it was Oxbridge, you’re here now, so let it go) you will probably have ambitions. Let me be the first to say two things: Firstly, welcome! to probably the best university in the world, as those bumper stickers from the 90s still, for […]
A Fresher’s review, Christmas 2016
The year has barely started and I already have to pack my bags for a 12 hour flight back home. The first three months have been a roller coaster ride, adjusting to a home away from home, a completely new education system, and to international students, a completely different language. As freshers, we come in […]
Dealing with homesickness
Flying the nest can bring up all sorts of nostalgic feelings about leaving home. Most students can’t wait to leave home and move on to their next adventure. But, as perfectly explained by How I Met Your Mother, the second your parents leave you in that empty room in a flat full of strangers, you […]
Your Exeter Freshers Survival Checklist
It starts simply: you thought you were so prepared when your mum drove you to IKEA after results day, piling Vargardens and Senuells (plates and pans for those who don’t speak IKEA) into your trolley. But after a quick google search for ‘Freshers Uni Checklists’, here you are, an anxious victim of the ever-growing lists […]
First year: a year in the life!
Another year older, another year (supposedly) wiser. My first year of university is coming to an end and it has been everything I wanted it to be. It’s not been what I expected, but it has been fantastic. Coming from A levels, I didn’t know how I was going to cope with the step up. […]