Freshers’ Week is back and so are clubs! Here are all the best pics of the chaos so far
Cue the inevitable carnage
Helen EggletonFreshers’ Week has returned to Birmingham for another year.
Last year saw the series of club nights and parties cancelled due to Covid, instead replaced by slightly sub-par sit down events.
After turning 18 in lockdown, for many freshers, this will be their first experience of clubbing and the carnage of Broad Street.
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Following the closure of clubs for the last 18 months due to the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of new and existing students from University of Birmingham, Aston and Birmingham City University descended on Broad Street and Digbeth for another week of Fresher’s events.
Beginning on Saturday, the start of Freshers’ Week saw events hosted by clubs including Pryzm, Rosie’s and The Mill, with hundreds of people queuing outside each venue.
With clubs only reopening recently, for many students in this new cohort, this week will be the first time they have been out in Birmingham or, indeed, ever.
Inevitably, the first nights out saw the usual “silly fresh” carnage of people pissing on the pavement, chundering in allies and being taken away in ambulances, but most people seemed in good spirits for their first taste of uni life.
Start as you mean to go on – by stealing traffic cones
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That misheld preconception you’re gonna make best friends for life in Freshers’
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Four day bender already taking its toll
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Checking your online banking and realising your student loan doesn’t drop for another week
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‘I’m a Tory, but the good kind’
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Wave your hands in the air if you’ve already missed welcome lectures
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The next generation of TikToker BNOCs
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Being sent to the back of the queue to sober up …
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Berries and cream, berries and cream, berries and cream
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‘Thou shalt not drunk text him’
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Clinging to your new found flatmate friends like your life depends on it
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Day two and you’ve lost your ID card
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Fingers crossed they’re not flatmates
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