1. The first time you meet your new friends, your mum is probably standing behind you.
2. Your parents then give you an emotional goodbye, and make you promise to call them.
3. And then you're on your own and you realise that you have to talk to new people or you'll be on your own forever.
4. Before braving meeting new people you hang up some fairy lights and pictures of your old friends.
5. After psyching yourself up for a while it's time to finally meet the people you will be forced to live with for the next year.
6. People insist on asking each other what school they went to even though no one will have heard of any school more than a mile away from their house.
7. Then there are awkward talks by overenthusiastic people from the year above known as "fresher reps".
8. They definitely assure you that your college/halls/campus/university is the best and you're going to have the best time of your life.
9. Then finally it's time to get drunk, and you will get really drunk.
10. The alcohol pushes you over the awkward A-levels chat and you start to get to know your new best friends.
11. You meet 1,000 people and remember no names.
12. The next day you have to get up early to do some boring stuff about registering for university, or learning about fire alarms.
13. You go to freshers' fair and sign up to literally everything.
14. At some point you develop a crush on one of those overenthusiastic fresher reps.
15. There is a lot of drunk vomiting.
16. Someone loses their virginity.
17. And someone else definitely breaks up with their school sweetheart in the first week.
18. People who have done gap years make a point of how they feel like they're much older than everyone else.
19. You make a friend who you think is a good candidate for your uni-BFF and then they turn out to be awful.
20. Around the third day something weird happens and it's no longer OK to talk to everyone.
21. You live off pizza.
22. It feels like an endurance race.
23. Lots of people get ill.
24. It is intense.
