Sitting in my new twin room watching various undergraduate students roam around the corridors is something that I always thought of as some distant eventuality but here I am , doing just that. It is such a surreal feeling to be here, away from home and on my own, and I'm not quite sure how to react to it. I feel slightly lost if I'm being totally honest.
I arrived yesterday after a maximum of 5 hours sleep and got settled in as quickly as I could. I'm actually very proud of how I have managed to fit everything in my room. For a twin room I have a lot of space so my roommate and I are never in each other's way. I have one small wardrobe which somehow fits all my clothes, a desk and some shelves but the biggest godsend of all was the under the bed space to house all my food (plus other necessities such as my shoes and a rice cooker)!
My new bed! I love my fox cushion :)
Storage: My teeny tiny wardrobe, food stockpile and shelves. The white boxes are from IKEA and have DVDS/books in them and the Celebrations tin holds all my nail polishes. And yes, I do have apples on my shelves...
I think it's safe to say the hardest part of making new friends was trying to find everyone! The closed doors to everyone's rooms makes it so hard to interact with anyone so I was glad to have a door stop so that at least I could say hi to people as they walked past. That is definitely something I would recommend everyone brings with them to university, it just makes you much more approachable! The kitchen is one of the only areas where people seem to congregate and is the only reason I've met most of my floor mates at all. I have made multiple cups of teas and snacks just for an excuse to go into the kitchen and see if there is anyone around to talk to!
We do also have a little garden at our halls and so I spent a lot of time down there meeting people and drinking (responsibly, obviously). It was decided that we'd go on a pub excursion as a group which had us going to two different pubs, the second of which was in Camden. Although it was nice to meet an abundance of new people at one time, there were so many people in the pubs that you couldn't move so a group of us decided to go back to our friend's halls for some (not so sensible) drinking games. In total there must have been about 12 of us crammed into a girl's tiny single room! It was very cramped but very funny. Unfortunately, some friends and I couldn't stay long because we had to make the 30-40 minute trek back to our own accommodation (which I was doing in heeled boots that I had been wearing all day-owww! ). If it was not for the other boy staying at my accommodation I think I would have gotten myself severely lost. I finally rolled into bed at about 2:30am.
I think it's fair to say that my first day as a uni student was eventful but I anticipate a lot of interesting things to happen in the coming days/nights. I'll keep you posted on them all!
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