How to be extremely popular with little to no effort (Freshers Week - Tips and Advice)

Member Name: shuttlex

Product:	Freshers Week - Tips and Advice
Date:	28/08/09 (354 review reads)
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Fresher's week is probably the most crucial week to making friends at university. Usually students are still hanging around with the same friends they met in the first week throughout the whole year. Students entering university tend to be around eighteen or nineteen years old, although legally an adult its still an age of immaturity. Everyone has just entered university and there's a certain amount of excitement and uncertainty.

The impression you give in the first week will be the impression you leave during the rest of your time. For example if you come across as a sociable fun person with lots of friends that everyone wants to know you can guarantee an amazing and exciting time. However, if you come across slightly nervous especially if you're a guy talking to a girl, you may be treated like a creep that no one wants to talk to. To sum things up Fresher's week is crucial. Depend on how you go about it, you will either enjoy university or absolutely detest everything and anything about it.

For this reason a lot of planning is required. If you have difficulty making friends, do not try to come across as sociable when you're not. What you need to do is give the impression of knowing lots of people and being popular. This may seem superficial but this is the hard truth coming from some who has experienced the absolute best and absolute worst of social interactions. There are times I have been treated like a hollywood celebrity and times I have experiences the complete opposite.

The first rule is never be seen on your own unless you are walking through a corridor at fast pace. Sitting on your own in the union bar or a lecture is social suicide. If you do happen to be left in that situation, pretend you are talking to a friend on your mobile. You need to be seen with other people, the more popular you are thought to be, the more others want to know you, especially when it comes to the mindset of a student who is only 18 or 19 years old.

You don't need to try and make friends in the first week, you need to know people. When you meet other students for the first time and you are on your own you have to make yourself seem like a valuable asset so drop hints about certain parties that you plan to go to even if you have no intention to do so. You can use this as an excuse to become aquainted and swap numbers. No one really wants to know who you are and where you're from so don't bore them about your background and history.

Go to the fresher's fair, find out about all the best events, this is when you call up your new contacts and invite them along. When you arrive at a party along with a few people you will be seen as socially adept and so without any effort be introduced to others. If you're a guy try not to go with just guys, bring a few women along as well. The conversation when meeting people just has to be centred on what you have been doing during freshers week, who you know and what amazing things you plan to do.

If you follow the simple rules as above, you will have a great time.

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