Mistakes that every Sussex first year has made

C.S Lewis once said ‘One fails forward toward success’. We have always been told that we learn by messing up  and making mistakes, but that doesn’t prevent us from feeling pretty stupid when we make them.

Below are a few of the mistakes we made foolishly in our first year that we would probably not make again.

Getting the train on a night out and planning to come back after 11pm

So you decided to be smart and get the train to the club so that you don’t have to deal with all of the bus bullshit. You’ll be in Brighton before you can say ‘Fuck the 25 bus’. However, this is all short lived when you trek all the way up West Street and the hill at 3am to realise that there are no trains to Falmer and you have to pay for a ticket on that 25 bus you were trying to avoid all this time.

Join a bunch of societies and go once

Becoming a dab hand at Badminton and Archery requires more than the 1 hour you have put aside to go and learn.

Leave your window open and the Sussex wildlife comes into your room

Something I personally have been affected by. Sussex campus is known for having a flurry of different wildlife. The wildlife are in fact very sociable and love nothing more than for you to sub-let your room for them so they can make your life a misery

Going to the Hatch on a Sunday 

Cracking on with some late night studying or deciding to stay up late on a Sunday? It may be tiring work and all you may want was a double chicken burger with chips or mozzarella fries. You put on your slippers and dressing gown thinking its ok to head down there at 12am. To your surprise, it is shut and you go hungry. Time to raid your flatmate’s food.

Try the Seacider chilli drink in East slope

Seacider is amazing. Who would ruin it by putting chilli in it? Mad men, that’s who.

Thinking you can survive off co-op for a year 

Unless you always go to the discounted aisle.

Deciding ‘Hey, lets go to Co-op from 12-2pm’ and immediately regret your decision 

The meal deal may be good for your lunch, but by the time you are able to buy it you starve to death. Maybe lets go to the union shop next time.

Dressing up nicely and doing your hair only to be ruined by the seafront weather

Some of the popular clubs in Brighton are on the seafront. We all found it cool that we could dance and party by the sea but what no one told you is that it is not as glamorous as you may think. A hurricane blows all over the beach, tossing and turning rubbish in the air like a vortex and your nice hair looks like Bagpuss.

Leaving Northfield at 8.55am and missing 10 minutes of your 9am lecture in Arts B

You Northfield peeps have it a bit hard what with all the traversing around campus you have to do. Those in Park Houses and Swanborough can have the luxury of stumbling out of bed 2 minutes before the lecture and still get there early. Those in Northfield have definitely ended up late to their lectures because of bad time management.

Convince yourself that East slope is actually a good place to live

You get it. East Slope is crap. You have to constantly defend it. In the end though, many gave up and accepted the harsh reality.