University friends quote

[BadHair]

Who said that you spend the first week of university making friends, and the rest of the three years avoiding them? I think it's Evelyn Waugh but can't remember which book.
Am compiling list of FAQs for students and would like to throw this in for the homesick ones.

yes -- charles ryder's pompous cousin in Brideshead.

Brilliant - I don't suppose you know the actual quote, do you?

cousin jasper

'You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first'

It's not actually true, of course.

Oh, fabulous. Thank you. No, it wasn't true for me either.

well a lot of people seemed to hare off when they saw me coming

I didn't actually make any friends in my first week, I have to say. Ahem.

i didn't make any friends in my first year
so nur

Although I suppose in my first year I acquired a boyfriend I spent the next four years trying to shake off....