Ten thoughts every fresher has on the first day of lectures

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After a week of nights out, thousands of first-year students will have faced their first day at university.

Monday marked the end of freshers' week.

The week before lectures start is normally jam packed with themed nights out and, if you survived it, you probably learnt a thing or two.

Here are some of the thoughts you might have in the days after freshers' week.

Freshers' flu is real

You were warned about it but you didn't think that it would actually hit you.

Now it's the first week of lectures, you can't breathe through your nose and you can just about hear the lecturer over the 200 people coughing.

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I probably should've worked out where this lecture hall was

You had a 9am lecture.

It's now 9.30 and you're still wondering around campus looking and feeling incredibly new and dreading walking into the lecture hall when you find it.

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It's OK to say no to freebies

It seemed like a good idea to say yes to everything you were offered but now you realise that you have four of the same lanyard, three flasks and countless branded pens.

The quilted loo roll I love so much is expensive

You've run out of your weekly allowance of free loo roll and you're standing in Sainsbury's wondering how life got so expensive.

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I joined every society at the freshers' fair but I probably won't go to any of their meetings

"University is your chance to talk to new people and try new things," every fresher is sent off to university armed with this advice.

At the freshers' fair you joined the cocktail making society, the snowboarding society, the Disney society and you have trials for judo, lacrosse and rugby on Wednesday.

You feel accomplished but you're now realising that you "can't make it" to those weekly film screenings.

I won't be friends with 99% of the people I met during freshers' week

If you survived freshers' week, chances are you ended up going out every night with the people you met on the first day.

After the hype has died down you realise that you have less in common with these people than you thought and that's OK.

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Do I really need to buy a TV licence?

Yes.

My flat is a mess and I don't quite know what to do about it

Over the past week cleaning has been the last thing on your mind and now you have a week's worth of dishes and no willing volunteers to take care of it.

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I'm exhausted

Three hours into your first day of lectures and your childhood naps are starting to look appealing.

I'm really homesick

Freshers' week has been REALLY busy and you haven't had the time to think about missing home.

Now that the hype has died down things might start to feel a bit lonely, but with any luck you'll get over it quicker than you can get rid of your freshers' flu.

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