What happens at "Freshers Week"?...... ( bearing in mind im a 'mature'student)

[tiredemma]

I contacted my uni today to get a start date and was told that although my actual course starts on Oct 2nd, I am expected to go for 'Freshers Week' from Sept 25th. Trouble is that I have changed my hours of work as of oct 2nd and I dont think that my employers are going to be too chuffed that im not going to be around the week before.

So apart from enroling on my course- what else am i expected to participate in during freshers week and is there any part of it that is non-relevant and i can get out of?

Dp's younger brother who started uni last year keeps asking me if im looking forward to freshers week and giggling ( he is 18) - and asking Dp if he is "cool" with me going to freshers week- there isnt some kind of weird inaugration ceremony with naked frolics is there?

They never gave my free condoms!!!!

you shag poeple yo regret shagging

Last year fro me (also mature) it involved going to Uni to enrol (a 4 hour queue! ), looking very briefly at the fayre, attending compulsory library vistits, IT inductions etc and not a lot else.

tiredemma do you post on a student nurse forum? I seem to recognise your post ...

In my freshers week they spent the whole time telling us how crap the course was - no really!! We registered (queued for 4 hours in a hot sports hall), got introduced to our modules, got measured for your uniforms, were introduced to being at uni - personal supervisor, disability services, study support services. There was little to no time for free time and all sessions were compulsary although with hindsight I would not have attended most of them.

This year we start lectures in freshers week so its not even a fun week off for us