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first year

Skills every Fresher should learn before university

by Charlie Nadin

Charlie Nadin offers some skills that are essential to learn for any Freshers looking to survive the first year of uni

A Fresher’s guide to second-year accommodation

by Isabella Ankerson

News Editor Isabella Ankerson discusses second-year accommodation and how to make house-hunting as stress-free as possible.

A Fresher’s Guide to Packing for University

by Bridie Adams

A Fresher’s Guide to Packing for University Print Music Editor Bridie Adams gives us the down low on all the university essentials for every fresher If you are a returning Exeter student, you’ll already know the basics of what you need and don’t need at university. If you’re going to be a fresher in September, […]

Best and worst of Freshers

by Comment

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 […]

OOD – Freshers Suitcase Compilation

by Comment

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 […]

Doritos to Deadlines: a story of survival

by Comment

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?

by Maddie Davies

  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

by James Murphy

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

by Charlotte Im

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

by Ruby Jones

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 […]

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