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  • 103 of 103 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 a-true-ben

    Member since 30/06/2001

    Reviews written: 262

    4 Stars Wanna Get Fresh? 01/09/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Get to meet lots of people, and enjoy your 3+ years

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Get a hangover and over-draft

    Freshers' week is obviously different for different people and in different places, but it's always an exciting, scary and important time for any student beginning university. I'll try to offer some general pointers, that will hopefully be applicable to many people involved in freshers' week (in various capacities). My Experience My first experience of freshers' week was taking part in one as a fresher (Jesus College, 2000) - I am and always have been quite shy, but I did my best to meet people. Thankfully the nature of Oxford meant I'd already met one or two on my course (e.g. at interview) ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    3 Stars Fresher's week 20/02/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Alcohol, no work, constant partying, and lots of new people

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not always the experience you expect

    Fresher’s week is supposed to be The Best Week Of Your Life. However whether or not this is actually true tends to vary a lot from one person to the next. Its supposed general purpose is to help all the new first years ‘settle in’, prepare themselves mentally for a new academic year, and get used to the surroundings. What really happens is that no-one does any work, any surroundings are generally only stumbled across while drunk, and most people end up greeting the new academic year either exhausted, hung over, or ill, but generally all three. This review will hopefully ... more
  • 88 of 88 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 ilusvm

    Member since 08/09/2004

    Reviews written: 250

    4 Stars FRESHERS WEEK!!! 11/10/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages fun, meeting new people, lots of parties

    Disadvantages Disadvantages expensive, you need to be selective, new students make easy targets, overwhelming

    This is my third week at University and I am loving it so Freshers Week seemed the perfect topic to write a review on! For those who are unsure of what 'Freshers Week' actually is, basically it is the first week at University for the new students (although students from other years often take part too!). Most universities have a week packed full of activities and parties that will help the students get to know each other. About a week before moving to university I was sent a pack containing information on everything that was going on in Freshers Week. It was actually quite overwhelming ... more
  • 55 of 55 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 zoe_page

    Member since 08/07/2001

    Reviews written: 871

    4 Stars For Freshers...And Refreshers 24/06/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A time for uni without the lectures and tutorials, lots of free things to grab, party after party

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Overwhelming for some, not *quite* the experience it's supposed to be

    Universities know better than to throw you straight into lectures when you arrive at the start of the autumn term. If you’re a new student (or fresher) you need a few days to settle in, find your way around, sort yourself out. Get back into the academic way of thinking – it’s been a long time since your last A Level, and 3 or 4 months of nothingness can really turn your brains to slush. If you’re a returning student, it’s not all that different. You need time to meet up with all the friends you’ve not seen since the last day of term, find out what’s ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 carysb

    Member since 20/03/2007

    Reviews written: 176

    5 Stars Fancy Fresher Week! 14/04/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A Laugh, Free Stuff, New People, New Lifestyle

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too Much Booze

    The first few weeks at university are always going to be daunting and that applies to almost everybody however we all settle in eventually - here is my run down on how to make life that little bit easier when you leave home for the first time, and Freshers week is the way to do it. Housemates: - Most students live in halls for their first year at least, this is a great opportunity to meet new people, be friendly, you may be shy but manners are free and always appreciated as is a smile. I met all my flatmates within 24 hours of moving in and got on great with them. (This changed throughout the ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    writing_from_the_heart

    5 Stars Freshers Week - Make the most of it 30/11/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages New Friends, Lots of drinks.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Hangovers, possible embarrassing moments.

    Before I was to leave my country for UK, to join Uce in Birmingham, I was really really excited about how my fresher’s week would be like? If I would make a lot friends? What mistakes I might make? What I should do and more importantly what I shouldn't do? And now I am here nearing the end of my first semester and all I can say about my freshers experience is, there should be a fresher’s week every month. It was certainly more difficult for me being from a different culture and a very different culture being India, but I was confident I would do a good job and at the same time a little tensed ... more
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