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"   Term time is back, baby! But before you rush ahead, you might want to consider these five things...  1. Money actually matters You&amp;#039;re at uni to have an awesome time (which often means sacrificing an edible meal for an Urban Outfitters purse, of course) but remember to take a break from attaching glow sticks to your furniture and have a think about money. Lots of second and third year students get part-time jobs to help them get by. Even though I had a job, I didn&amp;#039;t really think about my financial woes when I left uni, which made the transition from student to unemployed graduate even harder. Don&amp;#039;t let money worries overshadow having a great time, but give it a thought every now and then.   2. You won&amp;#039;t get the chance to access these amazing things againThere I was, hitting the clubs, thinking I was the student extraordinaire but actually, I missed out on a lot of amazing opportunities at uni, such as joining a society, helping to run official nights out and contributing to the uni magazine. Luckily, I was well-versed on the uni library, which stocked every book and magazine EVER. Once I left, I had to choose a different magazine to buy each month because my pennies didn&amp;#039;t stretch far enough to get every single one. Oh, library.  3. You don&amp;#039;t have to force friendships with everyone Lots of people meet their best friends at uni - best friends that will potentially be at your wedding in ten years time or helping you dip-dye your beautiful hair in a moment of madness. But that doesn&amp;#039;t mean you have to buddy up with everybody. While it&amp;#039;s great to be friendly and open to everyone, you also have permission to drift away from people you&amp;#039;re so not sure about. You don&amp;#039;t have to begrudgingly spend lots of time with a girl you met for five minutes in the canteen. Uni isn&amp;#039;t like a school trip where you just have to endure someone for seven days. It&amp;#039;s Three Whole Years. There&amp;#039;s nothing worse than looking back at the Saturday night roller disco and feeling sad that someone you didn&amp;#039;t like ruined it for you.  4. Those missed lectures DO matterAt uni, I missed a few lectures here or there, due to un-Berocca-ble hangovers, or oversleeping. I loved my course, but sometimes the idiotic, peer-pressured student within got the better of me. One of my best friends missed about one lecture in his whole three years, and I&amp;#039;m a little bit envious. So I had three extra hours in bed, but I missed out on something that could&amp;#039;ve potentially helped my career. I don&amp;#039;t wanna be a bore, but that one lecture could&amp;#039;ve meant the difference between me getting a job and being unemployed, living comfortably and struggling. My mum also reminded me that we were paying for our education. Just sayin&amp;#039;... 5. Even your closest friends will annoy youAfter the first few weeks at uni, most people figure out who they&amp;#039;re close to, through shared One Direction swooning or Topshop fantasies. When you live in halls, it&amp;#039;s easy to assume that your hall-mates irritating habits won&amp;#039;t annoy you because there&amp;#039;s enough of you to cancel it out, but when you live in such close confines, even your BFF will piss you off. Little tiffs or bickers are expected - you&amp;#039;re living with people you don&amp;#039;t know and you see them 24/7. My best friend and I annoyed the hell out of each other but we both knew that if we wanted to get away, we could just close our bedroom doors. At least until Gossip Girl was on, anyway.  Follow me on Twitter @SarahKwongers  THE COSMO INTERN&amp;#039;S FRESHERS GUIDE  MAKE THE MOST OF UNIVERSITY  COSMO ON CAMPUS EXCLUSIVE DEALS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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