20 Mistakes Every University Of East Anglia Freshman Makes

If only your parents could see how disappointing your life is now. All joking aside, keep reading for 20 mistakes every University of East Anglia freshman makes. Don’t make the same mistakes I did during my first year!

1. Lost something important in the LCR.

You’ve checked the the Hive and the Lodge but there’s nothing. Chances are you’ve posted ‘lost ID/phone/Santander card’ on the official LCR Ticket Exchange Facebook page. This is the most common mistake every University of East Anglia freshman makes.

2. Not joining any societies.

Now you’re eight weeks into your first term and the only friends you have are your flatmates (and maybe a few acquaintances from your seminars). What happens when you need time out from the pots left ‘soaking’ in the kitchen and you have no other friends to blow off steam with.

3. Joining too many societies.

You got too hyped up at freshers fayre and and joined pretty much everything…but never go to any of their meetings. You don’t worry about that £5 joining fee because it’s ‘not that much’ (just wait)

4. Buying all those textbooks.

YOU DON’T NEED THEM

5. Treating yourself.

Tom Haverford’s treat yo self was lovely at first -you really needed that Green & Blacks organic chocolate- but why spend so much when you could get at least three of those Euro Shopper value bars for half the price? Spoiling yourself too much will end in the death of your bank balance.

6. Not making the most of the sun during the first couple of weeks.

Instead you spend most of your days inside socialising with all your new flatmates, and then suddenly its mid November and you wake up at the weekends just as the sun is about to set.

7. Locking yourself out of your room.

You only went into the kitchen for some toast and now you have to go to the accommodation office in your cookie monster pyjamas.

8. Buying all your food from the SU Shop.

How much more expensive can it really be? You don’t want to walk to Aldi for that big block of cheese but you are desperate for some calcium in your life. The SU shop isn’t Waitrose so really, how bad can it be? You don’t even bother wondering how much money you’ve spent, as long as you’ve got that quality co-ops own £3.00 pizza you’re happy as. Three weeks later you’re skint and the only thing you have in your cupboard is that bag of onions that have been there since the start of term.

9. Laying off your essay for weeks.

“I have weeks until my assignment is due in!” No. Just. Please do it now.

10. Buying that £5 ticket for the A-List but blacking out at pres.

It’s happened more than you would like to admit.

11. You’ve done something to anger your cleaners in the kitchen.

Sorry Diane, but if the uni’s lame ass toaster is acceptable to stay on the kitchen top on cleaning day then what’s wrong with the kettle I brought staying here as well? You might be lucky if you have a lenient cleaner, but if you don’t then any customisation of your kitchen is going to make them wet themselves (my holiday banner was thrown in the bin two days after I had lovingly made it) (Am I bitter? Maybe.)

12. You did something weird in someone elses flat and will now be recognised by them as ‘that person’ forever.

13. Getting drunk on a Tuesday night.

You have a 9am the next day but you just. Can’t. Help. Going to a good ol Damn Good at the LCR. If you make it to your 9am, you’ll be in the 20% who actually turned up, and there’s a good chance someone will make a brisk exit to vomit half way through the lecture.

14. Not going to lectures.

“I’m only missing one” you say. “The slides will be on blackboard” you say. Then suddenly, its three weeks later and you’ve been to a grand total of four lectures, and the blackboard slides make no sense whatsoever.

15. Not registering your circuit card beforehand.

The first time your card reads ‘lo’ on the machine and you have an existential crisis because you have no idea what’s going on. You want to crawl into the washing machine and cry.

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16. Waiting 2+ weeks to do laundry.

Opening your wardrobe to find that there are absolutely no clothes (and nothing that smells clean enough in your laundry bin) to wear. So you end up spending £5 on your Circuit Laundry card, and then if things could get even worse, you find out that your Lenor fabric softener isn’t allowed in the machines, so your clothes end up feeling…crispy.

17. Ordering takeaway every single night you go out.

This one is a given as a University of East Anglia freshman. Even with those free Dominos flyers you’ve probably gotten into your overdraft by the start of December.

18. Not looking for a house before Christmas.

While everyone is wanting that 6 bedroom house on Earlham Road, you still haven’t figured out who you’re going to live with yet. Good luck, you’re going to need it!

19. Adding everyone on every social media possible when you meet them in the smoking area of the LCR.

Everyone in the smoking area of the LCR is so lovely that you decide to add them all on Facebook and Snapchat and probably get their phone numbers as well, and you wake up in the morning with 8 new third year friends who you will never see again.

20. Not going to the lake enough.

We have to appreciate this gem while we still live on campus!

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