The Student Package - Top 10 Must-Do's!
Everyone's had it said to them: university will be the best three years of your life!
It is the experience of a lifetime! So what makes the full student life package? The students at the University of Nottingham have helpfully listed a few examples. The following are the top 10 in the list:
1. Call takeaway with your friends and chat through the night 'til it's time for breakfast.
Because it's no fun now not to go crazy on the bedtime when there's finally no parents to nag at you to sleep, is it?
And let's face it, all of us struggle with discipline! - especially the fresher who's just come out of home and school.
For once there are no more tight schedules and you begins to think that you have all the time in the world.
It's only a 2000-word essay, it can't take that long? And that leads us to the second thing to do as a student:
2. Do all all-nighter on an essay worth 50% of your module.
For the catered lot, you will discover the foulness and blandness of hall food and will have probably escaped to Dino's long before anyway.
As for the self-catered lot, with exams and deadlines looming it is unlikely that you'll cook.
It is about fun, independence and exploring the world as well as coming to know yourself.Iris Ng
With Padrino's and Kebabish numbers at hand and Dino's on speed dial, it's no wonder us students tend to gain weight rather than lose it, despite the malnourishment of any proper food, and here comes our number 3:
3. Eat takeaway for every meal for a week.
Though of course as rank as hall food is, and as annoying as it is sharing kitchen and bathroom with five strangers, it seems that it is usually believed, at number 4, that:
4. Every student should live in halls of residence for their first year.
It is the golden opportunity to make friends, to mingle and settle into university life, and though most people wouldn't choose to live in halls twice, usually it is agreed that first year in halls is beneficial.
But after one year of that, it is usually recommended that you move out into a house, if only to get away from the drunkenness and noise, since in 2nd year, your marks begin to count. So at number 5:
5. Live in a house with friends.
Besides the obvious benefits, it is also a good learning curve with regards to responsibility with bills, managing yourself and learning to put up with people.
Though many people forget it, but university is also about your degree, and many people would agree with number 6:
