✦Study · 12 recordsStart university

Everything about a first term arrives at once. This separates the things with real deadlines — enrolment, finance, accommodation, registering with a doctor — from the social half, and is honest that the second one is what most people actually find hard.

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Goal

Through the first term, settled Month 3

Admin done, money understood, and not spending week one alone.

The admin with deadlines Week 4

Enrolment, finance, accommodation, a doctor.

  • Enrol and sort student financeDo firstDay 7
  • Confirm accommodation and what to bringDo firstWeek 2
  • Register with a doctor near the universityDo firstWeek 4

The first fortnight Month 2

The part people actually find hard.

  • Work out the weekly budget after rentDo firstWeek 3
  • Join two things, one of them not about drinkingWeek 5
  • Go back to the same thing a second timeWeek 7

Routines

  • Go to the lecturesdaily
  • Speak to somebody newweekly
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Turning up twice is the trick

Everybody appears to have made friends in the first fortnight and nobody has. What works is going back to the same thing a second and third time, which is why that is a task rather than an intention.\n\nThe weekly number after rent is the figure that governs a Tuesday. Working it out in week two is much easier than discovering it in November.

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Enrolment, student finance, accommodation and a doctor. All four have deadlines or queues attached, and all four are much worse to sort out in the first week when everybody else is doing the same thing.
Not the work — the first fortnight socially, when everybody appears to have made friends already and has not. The plan says so plainly and puts a couple of low-stakes things in the diary, because turning up repeatedly is what actually works.
Work out the weekly number after rent rather than the term total, which is the figure that actually governs a Tuesday. Doing it in the first fortnight is much easier than discovering it in November.
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