Halfway through the week. The University is a place of surreal, barely controlled madness.
Bumper cars roared around the central square yesterday, while people in gorilla suits handed out cotton candy and Welcome to Edinburgh! guides. New students canvassed the campus frantically trying to find out where to sign up for courses, where to get their student cards and where to go for the induction events. The Societies Fair was a heaving mass of people. The stuffy hall was filled to the brim with students, society barkers, cheap freebies and the sound of the bongo society drumming away.
It’s also been a great success. Nearly 200 new students signed up to our newsletter—so many that we ran out of sign-up sheets.So many postgraduates showed up to the induction that we quickly handed out all 500 of our leaflets, and had to start giving out branded beermats instead.
With two days left in Freshers’ Week, my initial goal of reaching 2000 new students is suddenly sounding very doable. For tonight: print more sign-up sheets, and fast!
It sounds like you are having a successful week.
Good luck in reaching your target before the end of tomorrow.