Freshers Survival Guide:

Put up with registration and enrolment – it only happens once a year (and the first year is the worst). It is vital to get your university student card, which is your passport to libraries, the SU and may be an actual key to the university buildings. Expect queues (take books, crosswords or try busking).

Make sure you take everything they ask for eg information about your fee status, original exam certificates. You will usually have to take all your certificates, including GCSE certificates, so get duplicates in advance if you have lost them (results slips are usually only accepted for the most recent exams). Take a pen and don’t lose your papers.

Take lots of passport photographs for ID, membership cards etc.