University College London

The move in experience was great, i was helped out by the staff and provided a bedding pack. Everyone was really friendly. Freshers had great events, with good variety but towards the end everything became quite repetitive.

I stayed in an intercollegiate hall and moving in was very smooth, all the staff were helpful and it was easy to meet fellow students in the events the hall organised and the common rooms. The student's union's fresher's events were mostly club nights which were fun but extremely crowded. There were some other events not centred around alcohol which I preferred because they were better for making friends: I attended the ice cream social and active cinema. The club nights were quite expensive but the other events were free or a reasonable price. The fresher's fair was slightly overwhelming because of the size of it, the number of societies and the crowdedness, but was nonetheless a good introduction to all the societies. However because it was organises in alphabetical order by the time I got to the end of the alphabet I couldn't be bothered to stop at the stands. The course inductions were helpful and we were given the essential information to start our year as well as tips for essay writing. The student mentor system was particularly good as we had someone less intimidating to ask all our questions. Overall my fresher's experience was good, the only thing I would want to change is spending less on clubs and drinks.

-UCL didn't advertise their fresher events that well so many people found events to go to themselves -Fresher's Fair was good though very busy

My move in experience was good but my flat in Schafer halls ended up not being very social. I didnt manage to meet many people in my halls, but this could have probably been improved if I put more effort into going out with people outside of my flat. I met most of my friends through societies and I highly recommend this approach for finding like minded people:)

Pretty fun events, lots of people went to them, the problem was there were so many different events, difficult to know which one to go to!!