FOR FRESHERS: STUFF TO BRING TO UNI.

I'm a few weeks away from starting my fourth year as a university student. I went off to uni fresh-faced, just-turned-eighteen, and fairly clueless. I am now twenty-one, and like, really wise. As a seasoned student I figured I'd give you freshers a list of things to buy for uni. I know it can get pretty overwhelming moving away from home for the first time and having to think about all of the things you might possibly need to do/bring/sort, so in order to try and help out, I've created a list of stuff you might need to bring with you/buy. A lot of it is fairly common sense, but some of the things you may not have thought of yourself, so let's HIT IT.

LOOKING BACK AT MY STUDY ABROAD BUCKET LIST.

Ah, Paris. The City of Love. During my ten months there I fell in love with the pastries, the crêpes, and temporarily (but on a thrice-daily basis, at minimum), the beautiful men on the Métro. I admit that falling deeply in this transient love with men using public transport is not specific to Paris for me, but I was definitely doing it with alarming frequency while I was there. I've left France now (currently in Geneva, almost back in London) and I have decided to go back to my initial "Year Abroad Bucket List" post and talk you through what I did and didn't do, and give some little anecdotes about the points. My original goal was to tick off at least 25 out of the 35 goals, so hopefully I succeeded. Allons-y!

YEAR ABROAD BUCKET LIST.

I'm about to up sticks and head to Paris for a year. Yep, Paris! Everyone around me seems more excited than I am, but then, that's understandable, because they are thinking of the good things, whereas I am going to be dealing with a whole bunch of potentially overwhelming and stressful stuff (think: setting up a bank account in French, trying to survive on the measly loan Student Finance gives me, attempting to not fail my classes, all of which are in French, et cetera). Don't get me wrong, I'm getting a little more excited each day (especially now I have an apartment sorted, which is a huge weight off my shoulders), but in order to keep this excitement brewing, I started to try and think of things to look forward to. Thence came the idea for my Year Abroad Bucket List. Some of the things on this list are Paris or France-specific, but others are just general things I'd like to accomplish/do during my year abroad.