Tag: freshers
The price of moving away
BEING away from home and being at university is at first a strange feeling, one that definitely takes getting used to. I felt this...
The night is young
It’s easy to sympathise with the freshers’ plight. Your first hours in Exeter might proceed with a certain lingering itch - having bid goodbye...
Summer Blues
Throughout my academic life, I always thought of the last week of August to be the big Sunday. The last hoorah. The existential dread...
Freshers Feelings
First year won’t be the best year of your life. There, I said it. It will be filled with its fair share of loneliness,...
Best and worst of Freshers
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...
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....
Exam fears: a first-year perspective
I may have decided to write this article in the midst of an exam related breakdown, which perhaps gives a good idea of how...
Should freshers revise in the library? (for)
As we roll into the exam season, the inevitable debate arises over whether first years really need access to the library as other, older...
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...
Advice on adulting
I’m not sure how qualified I am to write this article. As a person who perpetually runs home to their mum in the face...
