The University of Leeds

The overall experience in terms of what you do was as expected- you go out every night. However you have not had time to find your people yet usually, or you haven't made good enough friends with your flat, and so it can feel quite lonely. I had fun on the nights out but when I was on my own in the day I felt quite homesick.

Freshers week was a very busy time with so much happening that I missed out on opportunities I wanted to take advantage of as I wasn’t aware they were happening or they overlapped with something else or I felt anxious going alone

In my fresher's experience I went out every night and didn't really experience new things throughout the day. I still enjoyed making new friends though on the a night.

was alright, canny complain uno was p sick, all the freshers events were w*nk as fuck though. th freshers zoo was the worst experience of my life

Because Leeds is such a big city and there are so many different students spread out all over the place I definitely didn't get much out of Freshers. I'd advise all students to hold out and wait until Freshers which is when a lot of your friends will actually form. For the few first weeks just try and socialise with as many different people possible and don't stick to what you would normally do. Really push yourself outside you're comfort zone.

My moving in experience was all quite well organised by the halls and it was easy to meet people in the flat. I thought the organisation of nights out and events could have been better as it wasn’t clear what you needed to buy tickets for. Lots of events were oversold so the clubs were just really busy. Lots of people were unsure whether to buy the wristbands promoted by clubs to get access to freshers week events but this is unnecessary and cons freshers into thinking they have to buy it before they even get to university.