If you believe the hype, freshers’ week is one long party: filled with nights out, new friends and dubious amounts of booze. For anyone heading to uni, it’s a rite of passage – but although there is a huge amount of pressure on students to wring every ounce of fun out of that first, whirlwind week, they sometimes find it’s not quite the experience they were expecting.
As well as settling into your rooms and meeting people who could be a friend for life (or ditched by week two), your first week can be a mixed bag, with highs and lows. The thrill of independence is likely to be interspersed with moments of homesickness and anxiety.
