Make sure you make the effort to know your flatmates, it will feel awkward at the start but its the same for them, maybe play some drinking games and go out together on the first night Try not to go out 14nights in a row and you will feel like death!!! If your flatmates are ass tards then switch asap :P Shopping is hard if you don't have a car so either get it delivered by tesco or asd and get a shit load or ask flatmates to join in or get a couple flat mates and get a taxi if it isn't too far to the supermarket....or be a real student walk their then nick the trolley and wheel it all the way home :P O, and try and make friends on your course, so you have people to sit with in lectures, easiest way is to make friends in your seminar groups or if your lucky and living with someone on the same course. I would say stay at uni in the library or something to get all your work done, you may end up there till 6 but there are too many distractions in your halls