The only Edi Uni bucket list you’ll ever need

With all those silly freshers starting to settle in to the city, it’s only right that we veterans suggest some must-do experiences that will complete your Edinburgh University journey.

Here are some of the pillars of my university experience so far (and some pinched from my uni bucket list).

1. Climb Arthur’s Seat (again)

It’s not quite as elegant as they made it look in One Day

Starting strong with a common freshers’ superstition that students need to climb the hill before the first day of classes or you’ll be cursed with seven years of awful sex, or whatever else you and your flatmates claim to have heard.

Whether you’re superstitious or not, I think it’s safe to say no one wants to take the chance.

Whether it’s a mental health walk or a drunk climb at 3a.m you’re guaranteed an iconic, ankle breaking experience. Just don’t go acting like you’ve done something revolutionary, you’re sharing the mantle with literally everyone in Edinburgh, including the countless tourists. 

2. Find a Library crush

This one is absolutely essential (not just for MMM purposes).

When I say I’ve been to the library six times this week, it’s probably just because I want to see my own Clark Kent, who may or may not know I actually.

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A little crush makes any situation better, even when you’re in the library and contemplating whether you actually want your degree, if it’s even worth sitting your exams, or if your flatmates all secretly (or not so secretly) hate you. When  your little library crush finally wanders by, take that little pick me up, even if a cry is still needed. 

3. Promise an academic comeback…

Just to give up the second a 9am comes up.

4. Picnic in the Meadows

Average sight in the meadows

Watch out, although you may have a fab time just know you will be dodging footballs from guys that “could have got to the premier league if it wasn’t for their ACL injury”. 

5. Survive Hive Till Five

For the love of God send her home

It doesn’t matter if you’ve gone once and swear to hide it till your grave, or go whenever they have their 5a licence and wear the t-shirt like a badge on honour, either way you’ve survived.

6. Splitting the G at drops

Nectar, some may say

If I’m asking for anything for Christmas, it will be the ability to split the G (and actually enjoy a Guinness x).

8. Cry in the library

I can see the tears in their eyes

Do I want to do this every semester? No, not really. Do I? Yes. 

Drink away your sorrows in Potterrow, or hell, just bring some vodka in that Lucozade bottle and make studying a bit more fun.

10. Spend a whole lecture doing NYT games

It’s not for fun, it’s for your sanity, because sometimes you just need a break from a monotone monologue that, at the end of the day, doesn’t help you with your course work.

11. Sign up to too many societies 

We still don’t know the rules

Signing up to tons of societies you know you’ll never go to is an ambitious move everyone’s bound to make. The hard part that they don’t tell you about is how to get out, some societies are one self sustainable compound away from a cult, once you’re in you will never leave. To this day I still receive emails from the cricket and curling societies, despite never being to a single social.

12. Actually get the degree

Let them have fun before they are all inevitably high school teachers

This might be the biggest stretch of them all.