1. ALWAYS make sure you know where/when your lectures are.

2. Make a timetable - leaving space for drinking and chilling and recovering from hangovers.

3. Just because the students bar has a 6-for-the-price-of-1 offer on Aftershock, it doesn't mean you have to get it. Get 5 mates and put 20p in each to get the Aftershock.

4. Food IS essential. DO NOT attempt to convince yourself you can live on one cake and a frozen curry you steal from home every weekend for 3 years. Click here to get some simple recipes to survive on.

5. Don't go to a uni because your mates/boyfriend/ girlfriend/all three are going. Go where YOU want to go.

6. BUY A TOASTIE MACHINE, A TOASTER AND A KETTLE!