Frosh week

The first week of university, in which a high school student metamorphosizes into a freshman, or first year student. Typically this week is filled with (and fraught with) many discoveries, some good and some bad. The bad parts usually involved an excess of excess, and learning where one's boundaries are.

Also known as Freshers' Week, this is the week before the first week of the first term of most British universities. Freshers' week is intended as an opportunity for new students to get a feel for the university and student life before dumping any stressful coursework on them. During freshers' week, you will probably do most of the following things (depending on the university).

• Meet your Director of studies
• Drink
• Find out where your first lectures are
• Find out where the unions are
• Find out where the pubs are
• Catch Freshers' 'Flu
• Sign up for any outside courses you plan to do
• Drink
• Get to know your flatmates
• Sign on with a local GP
• Matriculate
• Pay your tuition fees and collect your student loan (in that order, surprisingly)
• Vomit
• Join a society or two
• Liberate a traffic cone or two

As a continuing student, freshers' week is usually the time you'll find out how your resits went, and plead with your DOS to let you proceed to the next year. It's much less fun after the first time.