Tips for the start of uni (Freshers and onwards)

[Isphera]

Asking for social and life advice on a gaming forum...this should go well

OK, I'm heading to uni on the 2nd October (Warwick to study Management before anyone asks the obvious) and if I'm honest, I'm a little daunted by the prospect, mainly on the social aspect seeing as I have spent the last 8 years of my life as a social recluse at an all-guys school and been out once in that time. That's not to say I'm a complete social tard (most of you know that from the i-series I've been at), but I'm not exactly the most comfortable around...well, people (not knowing what to say, getting kind of trailed off early).

Along with that, you have the bombardment of stuff to take in and adapt - living alone, so being responsible for upkeep and supplies, starting a new course that will likely melt my brain until my body has no head at all, along with trying to balance work/play (something I've never really done well until May this year) and other personal evolutions.

I've asked Chalex a couple times for tips on this (notably freshers week), but I know and I'm not the only person in this situation this year (along with several other nublets in the next few years), and there are a few people here that have been through their first year of uni, and I wondered if they would like to pass down all their wisdom to us nooblets. Any advice would be cool, from the obvious and stated, to the subtle and very unknown surprises. It can be about anything from what to expect from classes, note taking techniques and people you have to speak with in the first week to lame ass chat up lines that got you laughed out of the SU and what not to do with the errent cucumbers in the kitchen – all advice is good advice, assuming it doesn't involve ploughing your way through 10 shots of Sambooka and then ending up in the car park hugging your new best mate.