Being a fresher at campus is a bitter-sweet feeling. With in yourself and your friends, the feeling is beyond euphoric, but the hate you get from the older campusers who have been-there-done-that, the feeling is horrible.
Here’s the thing, being a fresher sucks. You get picked on from the students in other years, plus you can’t help but feel lost about everything going on around campus. However, no one gets to fourth or third year by skipping first year, so at least you know that will pass. However if you don’t feel like giving it away, here are some tips that raise red flags. Tips that will help you fray from the term “fresher”.
Moving in packs
We get it, you are O.Bs and O.Gs from your high schools, get over it. We know we have. This is a new era of your life, venture out and make new friends. Moving in a pack is more than obvious, more so if you’re screaming out terms like “master” “danke” “dorm.” In your defense these may have been the terms used in my time, but you get the drill.
Dressing skimpy
I do understand that the little black dresses and short skirts were a no-no before. Campus is a breath of fresh air; you dress in whatever way floats your boat. This is more evident in bars where you’re wearing a belt for a skirt, and a top for a dress. Yes every girl let’s loose now and again throwing on their little dress, but first years tend to go an extra mile.
Heading to the bar with nothing but your worn out pumps, skimpy dresses and flirty faces. As I said, you are in packs, so this pack transcends to the bar as well. The dance floor is your home, and a desert for drinks in your hands. People go to the bar to drink, among other things. So partaking in vigorous dancing, aimless movement in the bar, and zero drinks; arrr fresher alert. The boys tend to sing loudly to the cool Hip Hop songs at the time. It’s only cool if you are having drinks to help with your overwhelming balanced pants boys.
For the boys, your unfounded presumption that every girl wants you. I mean the unexplainable swelling. Walking like you have something stuck up in your butt, and speaking from the sides of your mouth; leave adolescence to the high school kids, your grown men. No one cares for your balanced trousers or your out-of-this-world slang. Yes the girls may actually want you, but girls also like mysterious guys not show-offs.
There’s healthy partying, and then there’s camping out in bars. I do agree partying can be a genes thing, but this is a rare agreement. Monday to Sunday partying proves your new at the game, and biting off more than you can chew (bad grades). You are afraid it won’t last but trust me, partying is way more fun after you get the hang of it. You still have second and third year to turn up like a normal person and not like an outraging lunatic.
The dressing.
If you’re lucky and have grown up around older stylish siblings, then this should be no worry. But for the most part the dressing just does not give. It’s just one of those things you evolve into. There’s nothing you can do about your personal style; it’s your signature, your originality. So you don’t alter it, you just grow into it. However if you are dying to look nothing like a first year, then take lessons from all those in the higher years. It’s that simple; copy and paste.
I could go on and on about the behavior that cringes people’s faces but you will get an earful once you actually start campus. However there isn’t any rule book on how to act. The “fresher moment” is just that, a moment. Once you move past first year, it sort of washes off, so no worries.
