University of Portsmouth

Freshers is interesting as you meet new people and are able to find people who are on the same page as you.

Waste of time buying the band and this should be told to students that most clubs will charge going in.

My favourite event was the Fun house which had inflatables and a ball pit as well as candyfloss. It was so much fun was a great ice breaker between some of my friends as we had all never been in a situation like this with each other and it was great to be just big kids. Although I loved this event there seemed to be no events for people that didnt drink. Although I did go to some of the drinking events I am not a big drinker so having some events that didnt involve alcohol would have been great.

Meeting new people in my flat was easy and I spent most of my freshers with them because it was difficult to meet others outside because there were no events suitable for meeting people. The events were average and the queues were horrifically long and I know some people didn’t get in even though they had a wristband. I’d suggest going early because it guarantees you entry. Alcohol was cheap with the deals on at the various club so you don’t have to spend a ridiculous amount of money. There were some special appearances through out by low list celebs however some didn’t show up which was disappointing when you bought a ticket.

This is one of the biggest disappointment to Portsmouth university. The freshers week seems as though it will be amazing, but actually it really is a let down. It seems to be that there is more effort into the advertisement of the freshers week rather than the events themselves. I did not attend one event that made me think wow this is amazing. I think it was all relying on that you’d be drunk out of your mind that you wouldn’t notice how bad it was.