1. There's too much hype around freshers week - I came to uni with all these great expectations of alcohol filled nights with my new flat mates, dancing the night away and staggering home at 5am hand in hand with my new friends. My freshers week sort of was and sort of wasn't that. There will be a lot of alcohol but you will probably pass your limit and end up coming back to halls at 3am in a taxi. You will dance with your new friends but you'll still be a little bit cautious around them as you try and work out the new people in your life. 2. You don't have to LOVE freshers - I didn't. I spent a lot of time in freshers week crying, or nearly crying, or on the phone crying. One of the things that made me cry was the fact that I wasn't loving freshers life and felt like I was doing it wrong, or that uni wasn't for me, or that I didn't belong here purely because there's this big thing about freshers being such an amazing week. You will get sad and fri...