Some things it would have been good to have known
Posted by Steve on 26 April 2010
Coming to the end of Year 1, there's a few things that might have been useful to know
1. Nobody knows each others grades and people are not interested
2. Almost everybody lives right next to school
3. You will spend a large percentage of your cash in the Windsor Pub
4. People will not leave NW1 that often
5. The football team is a good way to learn Spanish as it has so many latin americans
6. There are so many clubs to join you can really only have any meaningful impact in a couple
7. You really do have to sit in the same seat ever class
8. They really do give you free beer and wine every Thursday night
9. Some of the speakers on campus are amazing
10. Inter-business school competitions are as brilliant as they are unpublicised, definitely enter them
11. Most faculty and lots of students have studied in the USA so despite being in London, examples in class will all be US cetric and you will start refering to the Easter Holidays as Spring Break
12. Although you won't have that many hours of class, you will always feel pretty busy
13. it's hard, but not impossible to fail classes
14. you should take every waiver available to you
15. It's impossible for there to be a concensus, some people will love a particular class/professor, while others will hate them - Diversity!
16. If applying for an HSBC loan, bring every piece of ID you have ever had with you, in triplicate
