St Mary's University, Twickenham

What a fantastic two weeks of events, meeting new people and getting to know the area. However, if you look at Universities like Birmingham or Loughborough, their freshers looked insane. They had the lastest artists and promoted diversity. For example, Brit Asia hosted Asian nights for them. On the other hand, St Mary's did a fantastic job at including events for people who didn't drink.

I found that the move in day was well organised and there many helpful students that helped me with my bags. However the events on for the freshers were not worth the money I paid for my wrist band. Most of the events weren't that original or creative and there wasn't anything set up to meet people on my course until lectures started. I think they could have done even more freshers events in the day time and thought more creatively for the night time events. I would say though to new students, even if your shy go to at least half of the events because it did make me meet new people and I actually met my best friend whilst complaining about freshers! It's definitely worth going and even though you might not make lasting friendship, you want to make friends with people in your halls so you hang out with them and go to the catered meals with people.