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Right, so little sprout (aka my sister) is off to Liverpool John Moore's in three weeks. What advice should I give her apart from the usual such as don't join societies and kill anyone who asks what A-level grades you got?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:15 (twenty-four years ago)

Drink a pint of water for every pint of alcohol. Don't let strange boys in your room unless they are gay and are helping you prepare for a seminar. Beware falling in love with your dashing tutor - he will neither a) leave his wife, nor b) give you higher grades.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:22 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't eat kebabs.

― Emma, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:24 (twenty-four years ago)

don't go to liverpool (sorry!)

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:27 (twenty-four years ago)

She'll massacre everyone then. Everything I learnt in the last year was so basic I'd hope everyone else already knows it, so I don't have a lot of advice to give.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:29 (twenty-four years ago)

Be there for a good time not a long time.

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:30 (twenty-four years ago)

I work at the university where my sister will be starting in October, so fully expect to be embroiled in parental espionage. Since she told me this morning that the one thing she'll miss is her double bed, they might be right to be worried... but I'm wondering if in fact I shouldn't go round to all the boys in Freshers Week and warn THEM about HER.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:32 (twenty-four years ago)

her boygriend will also be attending (different campus fortunately) I'm worried that she'll end up hanging out with him (lovely bloke that he is) and not meeting new people.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:36 (twenty-four years ago)

New people are rubbish.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:38 (twenty-four years ago)

Hand your essays in on time.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:47 (twenty-four years ago)

Graham??? b b b but to me, you're new people.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:49 (twenty-four years ago)

the buddhist society is full of (a) weird mentalists who b) look like members of a secret society dreamt up by hergé

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:08 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't attempt to be the life and soul in the first week, test the waters.

― _chris_ (bifartdag), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:21 (twenty-four years ago)

test them but don't drink them, they've been in the mersey

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:24 (twenty-four years ago)

[insert relevant local river where appropriate viz the river cambridge in cambridge ect ect]

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:25 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah you're right, the main thing is to try and meet new people, and not just hang out with your old mates. Although having said that I only succeeded in this for a semester where I just went out twice as much, sparing time for old and new mates, and then I thought my old mates are much better and kind of disappeared. So eh.....maybe the moral is make sure you stay in touch with your old mates, cos your new ones might get boring after a few weeks.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:26 (twenty-four years ago)

The River Cambridge?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:33 (twenty-four years ago)

If you need to eat cheaply, be mostly vegetarian. Cheap meat = nastiness. Cheap chickpeas = expensive chickpeas, more or less.

A little bit of work just now and again makes the end of term a whole lot easier.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:34 (twenty-four years ago)

Charming Ronan

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:35 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Ronan is completely OTM.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:35 (twenty-four years ago)

Cambridge is actually a shortened version of the towns full name: Cambridgebridge. The doubling of the bridges confused non-locals so the aldermen of the city decided to petition the King in parliament for a name change back in the 1530s. Of course, parliament wouldn't have a word of it, but via some arcane twist in the law Cambridge was allowed to stand as the towns use name whilst retaining Cambridgebridge as the name on its charter of incorporation.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:37 (twenty-four years ago)

Which is why new people are rubbish.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:42 (twenty-four years ago)

All I meant was just to be careful in the whole juggling of time with mates thing which inevitably ensues when you enter a new group of people

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:43 (twenty-four years ago)

Theer's a chicken place opposie the Liverpool Adelphi Hotel called Chicken Bazooka, I've never been in but it looks scary enough from the outside.

Seriously though, tell her to join the Tate membership thing, It allows you access to their members bar at the Albert Dock with a great view and free papers.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:45 (twenty-four years ago)

"Don't let your studies interfere with your education." The university president himself said this at my orientation.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:47 (twenty-four years ago)

(What I meant is Ronan's new people are me, and my new people acted like him)

Who got the first punch in J?

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:48 (twenty-four years ago)

That's not really true, as far as I know I went to College in Dublin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:54 (twenty-four years ago)

Fuck you

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:55 (twenty-four years ago)

er......

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:09 (twenty-four years ago)

Blimey. Graham in unprovoked aggression towards Ronan shockah. How rare.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:17 (twenty-four years ago)

...um...

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:18 (twenty-four years ago)

Always, always, always use a condom. Cream isn't cool (the nightclub). Avoid the Granby triangle. Be yourself.

― stevo (stevo), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 14:40 (twenty-four years ago)

Cream isn't cool cos it's closed!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:04 (twenty-four years ago)

Hadn't you heard, closed is the new open.

― Emma, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:07 (twenty-four years ago)

Her boyfriend being there will probably mean that she doesn't go overboard in the desperate to make new friends stakes so probably end up making better friends than ending up with a bunch of people she doesn't actually like!

Then again I made no friends at uni, yay!!!

The Liverpool branch of Schuh is (or used to be a few years ago) grebt!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:30 (twenty-four years ago)

Tell her to avoid Matthews Street, which will be hyped by the SU as the place to go on account of it's cheap. It's deeply unpleasant. All the good bars are to be found up the hill on Slater Street and Bold Street.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:30 (twenty-four years ago)

Do you really call your sister sprout? I hope so, I really like that.

― Anna, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 15:36 (twenty-four years ago)

the trick is to turn new friends into old friends. (Oh God, how Hallmark of me).

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 16:01 (twenty-four years ago)

If you decide you don't like what you enrolled to study its not too late to change your mind - better to be a bit behind than studying something you don't like (in which case you'll get behind anyway).

― isadora, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 22:22 (twenty-four years ago)

yes Anna, she is referred to as sprout occasionally, bless her. Mum is getting frantic about taking her over there, fortunately my godfather (grebt grebt man) is helping out.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:47 (twenty-four years ago)

Obviously I have a professional intest in this thread - but your bestbet is to throw a pretty low key party in halls on the first weekend. You'll get to meet loads of people and work out which ones are arseholes at the same time.

Oh and don't be too pissed off if your boyfriend dumps you within the month because he sees there being plenty more on offer. Certainly don't use it as a reason to leave - unless you only went there cos he was going. (Unfortunately common).

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 22 August 2002 09:06 (twenty-four years ago)

unless you only went there cos he was going

Do people really do this? Blimey.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 22 August 2002 09:26 (twenty-four years ago)

fortunately this is not the case this time, but there are about 5 of her mates all going to Liverpool too, and there's talk of some of them getting a house together in the second year.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 22 August 2002 09:32 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew five or six people who went to the same place that I did. I ended up in a house with one of them and a bunch of other people we had met. He's still a good friend and one of the finest people I've ever met. I'm glad none of us had the idea that it would be a good idea to hang around with each other exclusively, that would have been difficult and boring.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 22 August 2002 09:38 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah I had a similar experience Tim, all my friends except one went to other colleges. He probably was one of my best friends (at least after the newspaper incident on the wackiness thread) but at this point it's a situation where other people come out with US sometimes but every single week we're out somewhere. He likes dance music as much as I do which helps alot. So knowing only one person=classic.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 August 2002 11:08 (twenty-four years ago)

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