What Emma Learned

The Freshers' Guide that DOESN'T assume you know everything already

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Welcome to What Emma Learned

This guide is meant to supply answers to questions that most uni guides miss out because they assume freshers are at the age that they should know it already. If you are a fresher, I hope you find some of the posts useful. Let me know if you have any further questions about any of the subjects discussed here. If you survived that week, do share your stories about lessons learned and carpets ruined. Yours, helpfully, Emma xxx p.s. for updates about new posts, follow me on Twitter @emmadaian

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No pointing

I thought that my article last year on how to secretly drink less would be pooh-poohed as lame, but in fact I received a lot of positive feedback. One friend ...

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Tough-Love

Some people, especially those coming to uni from single-sex schools, will fall 'in love' with the first members of the opposite sex that they meet. Lacking the experience built up ...

2. Friends 2
Citizen journalist

The Social Network – a film about Facebook and its founder The Spit Network – a diagram charting the sexual relationships of people at your college/university halls (sponsored by Facebook) At university, ...

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Walking to a lecture

So you’ve survived Freshers’ Week without blowing your loan/offending everyone in your halls/sleeping with someone inappropriate. Now the actual work begins, so you head off to the library armed with ...

6. Love+Sax 3
A Master At Work

or, How to tell if someone fancies you or would otherwise be interested in a shag and what to do about it It's all very well scrambling around like an idiot ...

5. Going Out 1
The Perfect Night Out Puzzle

Some nights are good just because one small thing goes right, right at the beginning of the evening, and puts a glossy sheen on all subsequent events. Some nights are ...

6. Love+Sax 1

The most important piece of advice when it comes to wooing is: make sure you are obvious. This is good because you can avoid wasting any time in silence while ...

2. Friends 1
Tea for all seasons

In years to come you will discover that very few of your friends really liked tea in Freshers' Week. It is therefore best to enjoy blindly the bliss of communal ...

8. Eating 0

Some people survive university eating little more than Super Noodles and coke, but these tend to be pallid individuals who contribute little to tutorials and have to leave early on ...

8. Eating 0

Cooking with friends is great fun, as well cheaper than going to a restaurant or even McDonalds. Don't make supper the meal that you have to rush through before returning ...

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