I'm going to university on sunday GIVE ME TIPS

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tell me what to do and i shall do it.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

study hard!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

stop wetting yourself on purpose, it will happen accidentally far more than you would like

― President Busch (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

use a condom!

― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

what about for making friends.

how will i make the best friends?

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

join a club!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

maybe there will be some nice people at the student newspaper or campus radio station?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

OMG you should join a FRATERNITY!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

im taking a module in Existentialism. should i make friends with people on the course?

Will they think there is any point in friend making?

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

should i tell people i post at ILXor

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

get a job, like working at a cafe or record store. study hard but not too hard, and remember that college is like paid time off from real life.

― carly (carly), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Punch the first guy that looks at you in the face, thereby installing fear and respect in everyone else.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

is it a good idea to play really cool music loudly

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

or is it funnier to blast really lame music really loudly as if it were cool.

for instance http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_w/300_80/075678124020.jpg

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Or, either Bob Marley's Greatest Hits or Check Your Head.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Also would any ILXors like to come to my freshers ball in Canturbury.

Here's the deal breaker: Bradley from S Club 7 is playing.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

Olsen twins enlist Sprouse twins to be male versions of merchandising empire
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen want to make Cole and Dylan Sprouse the male versions of their teenage girl merchandising empire, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“My sister and I started the whole ’tween empire,” Ashley Olsen was quoted as saying. “I definitely see the potential for the boys to do that sort of thing.”
The 13-year-old Sprouse twins shared the role of Julian in Adam Sandler’s 1999 film, Big Daddy, just as the entrepreneurial 19-year-old twin actresses played Michelle Tanner on television’s Full House, which aired from 1987-1995.
With the brand name of D.C. Sprouse, Cole and Dylan will be the face of a boys division that will include DVD movies, CDs and other merchandise for the Olsens’ Dualstar Entertainment Group, the newspaper reported Monday.
“They love to Rollerblade, they like to surf, skate and are into videogames. ... They love animals,” said the Sprouses’ manager, Josh Werkman. “They’re boy boys in every sense of the term.”
Home video sales and product sponsorships ranging from a fashion line to toothpaste have made the “Mary-Kate and Ashley” brand a billion-dollar enterprise. Each twin is estimated to be worth more than $150 million US.
The Olsens, now college students, starred in 2004’s New York Minute.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Get a djing gig

It doesn't matter if it's only putting on one record after another, but it's a great student joh. Your audience will be drunk students, so it doesn't matter if you're any good or not.. they'll dance to anything they know. The hours are perfect (starts late at night, so you can still do other stuff early in the evening) and won't interrupt your daytime studies.

And if you get an okish place then the pay is great too

― jellybean (jellybean), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

carly and s/c RIDICULOUSLY OTM.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

although a book store would be fun too. depends which kind of girls you want to meat.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

sic.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

how does one go about getting a DJ-ing gig.

also im not taking any cds or vinyl to uni. just my mp3s and computer.

could i DJ with those?

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

although a book store would be fun too. depends which kind of girls you want to meat.

-- AaronK (fuzz_...), September 13th, 2005.

not a problem cuz im keeping my girlfriend in some long distance attempt.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

cut the girlfriend loose

― dr gary bleune (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Don't put yourself under pressure to make close friends straightaway. If you don't meet anyone you really like all that much for the first few weeks or even months, don't worry or think you never will.

Do as much background reading as you can. I kind of think background reading is more important than turning up to classes sometimes, but it depends what kind of a learner you are.

Find out about opportunities for volunteering. It can be a good way to meet different kinds of people and do something fulfilling.

Go up to people and start talking to them, even if you aren't normally the kind of person to do that. People from your classes, people you see around. You'll probably get the odd embarrassing snub, but you'll meet nice people too.

― Cathy (Cathy), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

We can only give tips if you inform us:

A: What are you studying?
B: Which Uni?
C: What is your accommodation ? how far from lectures?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, talk to people. Even if you're the type of person who doesn't usually take that initiative, actually especially if you aren't. Cos if you take the intiative, chances are you'll be talking up ppl who don't, i.e. ppl like you. Bonding ensues!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

It's all about the work-life balance. Do your work, go to class, don't blow all your money on drugs and beer, get involved. And yes, the food can kill you.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

sleep on your couch
ash in your shoes
always use the old sense of the word

― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

Wear beer goggles often.

― Keith C (lync0), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Similarly, don't assume that the first people you befriend will be your friends for life. Especially don't assume that you will still want to be their friend after the end of Freshers' Week. There's a Freshers' Week thread here somewhere I think. Read it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Bring a cake and share it with people.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

not a problem cuz im keeping my girlfriend in some long distance attempt.

-- Googley Asearch (lindseyloha...), September 13th, 2005 3:08 PM. (Toaster)

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cut the girlfriend loose
-- dr gary bleune (dr_...), September 13th, 2005 3:11 PM. (dr g)

No, keep the girlfriend, but only because having a girlfriend makes you a chick magnet. Trust me.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Find the incoming student with the richest parents and best cocaine. Be their friend.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

No, keep the girlfriend, but only because having a girlfriend makes you a chick magnet. Trust me.

That's true. USE THE GIRLFRIEND AS BAIT, is what I should've said.

― dr gary bleune (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Old School OTM

it won't last the first term though

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Find the incoming student with the richest parents and best cocaine. Be their friend.

WINNER.

Rich people are your friend at university.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

They are as long as they don't pull that "Y'all give me the cash and I'll pay for this on my parents' credit card" trick.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

If you fall for that it's your own fault.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Make sure you buy the first round, that's the one. Actually, go round for round until they're drunk/coked off their eyeballs. That's the one.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

LEMME PUT THIS COKE ON MY DAD'S AMEX, Y'ALL

― dr gary bleune (dr g), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Act like you're the coolest, most fun person ever for the first week or two. It won't matter if you aren't because you'll meet loads of people and can therefore pick and choose your friends at your leisure. However, don't assume that those you get close to in the first term will be your best friends come June. It takes a while to fnd your niche, or it did for me.

And don't work too hard in the first year but for Christ's sake make sure you pass.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

if you're staying in halls, leave your door open on your first day while you're moving in so you meet people as they walk past.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

knock on peoples door and ask if they want tea, all the time. even if you dont want tea or coffee, just make it and offer.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

don't stop drinking during fresher's week. at all. the rest comes naturally.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Grimly speaks the truth. This should help with my no 1 suggestion.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

the loud music thing definitely does work. last year i was playing luciano very loud out of my open window and a guy came up to window and said "hey this is luciano isn't it" and i said yes and now we are best friend!

― deep kid, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

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― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

Also would any ILXors like to come to my freshers ball in Canturbury.
Here's the deal breaker: Bradley from S Club 7 is playing.

-- Googley Asearch (lindseyloha...), September 13th, 2005.

daerest freshman, learn to spell the town you will be living in for three years kthx.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

Its Freshers Week again. Tell stories of your first week at university here

ignore what matt says at the beginning!

actually must be about time for a revive of that thread...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Is this the girlfriend who won't have sex with you? If so, prepare for the most frustrating few weeks of your life as hottie after hottie throw themselves at you, while you're saving yourself for someone who won't even put out.

(I stayed with my gf until the start of my 3rd year. She then dumped me, six weeks after the start of her first year. Bitch. GET THERE FIRST)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

Don't buy any books in advance. Once you get there you can buy them second-hand off last years students or even borrow a lot of them. The booklists are the tutors' dream-ons, not Sinai tablets.

― All Bunged Up (Jake Proudlock), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

don't go to lectures, don't go home to parents during term, cut out all your old friends, ditch any girlfriends.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

walk around in the nude, with your door open whil playing Phil Collins...Sussudio.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

my god, i've done both of those before but it never occurred to me to try both at the same time. revelation!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

tell everyone your name is Hongro.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

impress people by sneering at student rock and boast about your ownership of the new rachel stevens record, people'll think it's wacky. oh shit, i got 'being a freshman' confused with 'being on ilx in your mid-twenties.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

get a tattoo on your face, obviously.

― Cool Raoul (Cool Raoul), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Read On the Fucking Road and listen to Nick Drake.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

And John Martyn. Ultimate student stoner music.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Merzbow and Budweiser make good icebreakers with yr new roomate.

― Old School (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

(on the road is shit, but i guess you have to go through it -- like puberty)

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

don't stop drinking during fresher's week. at all. the rest comes naturally.

This is excellent advice. Just remember to stop at some point after that. Preferably before your liver starts overproducing all sorts of weird enzymes.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

tell them not to shine a torch at your face because you've just lost a pint of blood

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

say yes to everything for the first three months. then say not to everything. see where that gets you.

real answer: don't forget that 95% of the people you meet in your first term, you'll spend 2.5 years trying to shake off.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Enjoy it. And stay away from the creepy General Maanger of the Students' Union.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

unless she's fit

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

haha, "she"...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Away in a Maanger

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

oh haha sorry maanger i didn't read it properly

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), September 14th, 2005.

oh shes having sex with me now and everything is going really well.

I'm just not really interested in other girls or having lots of sex with hotties.

But getting drunk and meeting new friends is something i'm looking forward to.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

freeze cylinders of liquid nitrogen and slice off the exact size/shape/weight as a quarter. quickly, before it thaws, run to the machine buy yourself a dr. pepper. unlimited free dr. peppers! at least until you run out of liquid nitrogen.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

the ditching-the-girlfriend advice isn't so much about going out and nailing every hottie in sight, more about missing out on university life cos your at hers or whatever, all those crucial weekends. if it's going well, it's going well, though.

i remember how all the girls i went to uni with had boyfriends and were all 'i've got a boyfriend' to each other (it was a predominantly female college). by 3rd week they'd all ditched/been ditched.

― LIBERAL ARTS FAG, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

first I read this as "I'm going to university on sunday GIVE ME TIPS"

I was like "haha yeah otm"

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

er, 2nd try:

first I read this as "I'm going to university on sunday GIVE ME TITS"

I was like "haha yeah otm"

― Mickey (modestmickey), Thursday, 15 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

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