Well the time has come for the students to buckle down and do some work. This year's freshers' week has been a very successful one. I worked the bar as senior on both the first and second nights and we took well over £1000 each night - and that's with no 3rd years and a lot less freshers than previous years. Thursday saw us take over £1700 - almost unheard of on a non-ball night.
It's always weird to wonder if freshers' week is as good as it gets during your time at uni: you have a great time, but don't really know what's going on. Strangely, at the completely opposite end of the scale is Graduands' week. If the first week in Durham is great, surely your last one (with all the friends you've made since those first few nights) should be even better. Graduands' dinner sets it up well - a late licence at the bar and landing parties that go on until morning, but somehow, without fail it just falls away. The arrival of parents and sad news that is friends leaving without a chance to say goodbye always make Graduands' week a very quiet affair.
Of course - it's even worse for postgrads - we just slip away one by one at during September.
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