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Welcome to THUMP's Guide to Freshers' Week

Enjoy a week's worth of exhaustive coverage featuring everything you need to know about wherever in the UK it is you've ended up.

So here you are. It's the Monday morning after the weekend before and you probably feel like death. You're lying in a dingy, small, uncomfortable room that's costing you about £200 a week in a city where you know no one but the ragtag bunch of strangers you shared too much with after a round or eight of apple flavoured Sourz. You miss friends, family, home. Welcome to your life. There's no turning back.

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But hey, freshers' is meant to be fun, right? You're meant to drink too much, smoke too much, spend too much. You're meant to form lifelong friendships predicated almost entirely on a sense of self-hatred and social-unease. You're meant to live, for a week or two, like a minor character in Club Reps. This is your last taste of freedom and you need to make the most of it.

And how are you going to do that? By going out and exploring your new surroundings, embracing the limitless possibilities of life in a new town? I mean, you could, but that involves effort. So why not spend the next few days—or brief breaks from binge drinking as you'll come to think of them—in the company of THUMP and our exhaustive coverage of everything you need to know about wherever in the UK it is you've ended up.

There'll be city guides and in-depth stories, handy hints and tips. And stories about drinking. Lots of drinking.

You'll find everything you need, right here.

Enjoy!