I’d like to start by saying apologies for the lack of posts in the last few months. This is because life has become rather complex and it has created a writers’ block of sorts, but this is a long story that even in the context of blogging could be considered out of scope. Nonetheless, down to business. This post will mainly be devoted to advice for freshers.<\/p>\n
I have this habit of starting the academic year by ceremoniously snapping deep emotional ties with someone of the opposite sex. Yes, a female (us nerds are getting pretty provocative these days)… freshers, be advised: while at university it is imperative that, if you want to live any degree of a life, do everything you can to avoid getting tied down too quickly; I make this mistake time and time again and it can potentially cause your life to fail spectacularly – this whole situation has caused me to motivationally run dry. Not useful when you’re in the market for a 1st. Take no risks with your degree!<\/p>\n
Moving into a house has been fun. Some hooded individuals attempted to break into our shed the other day. Luckily, being as hench as I am, they took one look at me and froze. On the spur of the moment, I shouted an obscenity at them and they ran. I had my phone on me, I had the opportunity to hide and take pictures\/videos, and also the opportunity to let them break into the shed (providing evidence), but unfortunately as I didn’t take this option I couldn’t press charges, as the police explained later – but they definitely won’t be coming back as we have knives (which is a joke. [which actually isn’t a joke as we do have knives for cooking purposes.])<\/p>\n
I’d like to add that when choosing a house, the part of town you aim for will have a large effect on the quality of your living space, and of the surrounding residents – regardless of how much you end up paying to stay there. As this is a professional blog I am not obliged to express my disgust for any particular area of Southampton, so instead I’ll make an endorsement: if you want a nice house, look behind the library<\/em>. And if you’re in halls, for goodness sake, treasure the experience – you may not experience such luxury for quite a while.<\/p>\n Promise there’ll be less cautionary tales next time. Lovelovelove<\/p>\n -D.T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’d like to start by saying apologies for the lack of posts in the last few months. This is because life has become rather complex and it has created a writers’ block of sorts, but this is a long story that even in the context of blogging could be considered out of scope. Nonetheless, down to business. This post will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33312,33309,33314,33311],"tags":[430982,7174,431032,431030],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-southampton","category-project-work","category-software-engineering","category-southampton-university-life","tag-academic-year","tag-business","tag-endorsement","tag-proactive","column","twocol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BSCk-9a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}