The University 101 Guide To: Making Friends

So after a couple of weeks settling in to university I thought I might share my experiences with you bunch of cool people who have nothing better to do than to stalk me on the internet! I thought I would try and be as different as possible so I am going to do them in this jokey instructive way. Just for the record, please do not take any of this advice as it will inevitably lead up with you being like me. Which is definitely not a good thing!

I used to think an early start meant having to get up at 5.30am for work at 6... How uni has changed my life. An actual early start guys is having to get up for a 1pm lecture. So until you get to that stage I don't want to hear any more winging about having to get a bus to school at 8.30. Alight?

So I entitled this guide making friends. Now university is something of a friend making phenomenon. Naturally because it is university the best way to make friends is beer. Once there is a crate of beer in the kitchen, whoever is responsible for it will be forever known as the bringer of beer. 

What I also must add for the sake of boys making friends with girls is that there are lots of other things which do almost as well as beer. For example, girls like to use the whole can I borrow some sugar as an ice breaker apparently, or as has happened, "please can I have a can of that red bull so I don't have another sugar low... I'm diabetic." It wasn't even my Red Bull to give out. 

Oh and also I probably should put in this little article ways to not make friends... Don't swap people's Vodka for water, they tend to get quite angry. Although it is funny then to go up to people and get them to down the bottle of water vodka, to which they get half way down and then stop, going "What have you given me?" And also don't insult stranger's taste in music, as we found out when we crashed a kitchen party wearing Beatles t-shirts to which they replied some expletives against the Beatles. We left before plates started being smashed...

But as I sit here feeding the late risers cereal because they couldn't be bothered to get up for breakfast, I think so far I have done pretty well. I helped a girl do her washing (I mean that should surely not happen right?) and I have an empty biscuit tin, so I must have done reasonably well so far?

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First things first: Beer or tea?

So for all who may or may not know, I am going to university. Or should I now rephrase that, I am at university! Surprisingly I managed to get here, get everything in and sorted and make a cup of tea without any hiccups. This in itself is a personal lifetime achievement!

However in making a cuppa and talking to new people, this has got me thinking about everything I might need in the short term, and then in the long term. Things I hadn't thought about  about like waste bins, and doorstops. (for the record I made do with a doorstop with a piece of rope cord tied to the tap of the sink behind my door. Very handy I thought!)

I then started talking to my Dad about the price of beer (not an unusual conversation I must add). And this ties in with my cup of tea because?

Well I was trying to work out what was more important. This maybe an easy answer for some, and some of you are probably shouting at your computer screens right now: Beer of course you fool! (Well actually if you are my mum and dad you probably won't because you have only just worked out how to read this... and are wondering why it wasn't tweeted directly to you)

But really though, I have had 4 cups of tea in the space of 3 hours, and spoken to about 20 people because of them! One of the great things about tea is that it brings people together, like no other drink. The same can be said for alcohol granted, but to be honest with you after 1 I can't remember the people who I speaking to, which never really goes down well!

So bare this in mind kids. Tea is better than beer. Untill about 4pm whereby beer becomes the only thing you can physically drink... especially at uni.

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