Something New each Day

Hiya guys, So it's officially Fresher's week all across the country. For me, last night was my first taste of a proper fresher's event or a London night out because last year was pretty chilled and mainly about getting my bearings. So I have decided to live my second year as my first and I'm going to bore you all with the dets. Me and my friend decided to get on the QM bus and travel to Ministry of Sound and get a taste of a proper Fresher's night in London. I had high hopes but wasn't feeling the best: 4 hours sleep and eating two chicken burgers *don't worry they were small Birdseye ones* probably wasn't the best way to start a night out. So we got on the bus and it was hilarious seeing all these first years making awkward chat with the people they literally met the night trying to fill silences. Something I noticed pretty much all night was that, once we told someone we were second years, we weren't topics of interest and it started ...

Hiya guys, It's crazy to think that this time last year I was writing a post on here about packing for my first year of university and, although it seems as if nothing has changed, it seems like everything has changed. I made the move to London last year but I am now sat in my front room in Manchester getting prepared to go back to the capital for my second year studying history at Queen Mary's. I think I was probably doing exactly the same thing last but I have definitely learnt a lot of things and changed as a person. When I started university, I had a completely naive view of what university would be like and I kinda think that that's been me my entire life. I always let people in and expected the best from people and situations but I think that it's changed and that isn't a bad thing! I did think that university would be drinking all the time and going out to different places and I knew from the start that maybe the typical student life wasn't...