- Get your computer set-up with internet cables that will be given to you as you register
- Attend the vice-chancellor’s and SU talk in Central Hall/ Physics exhibition centre.
- Collect your NUS card: these can be obtained during Fresher’s week by joining the queues in the Physics Exhibition Centre. Alternatively, you can get your NUS card from the SU building at any time during the year. Just remember to take a passport photo along with you.
- Collect your University card from the Information Centre, if you haven’t already got it.
- Go to the fire safety talk.
- Register with your department and collect relevant booklets and handbooks, etc. Also attend your various departmental talks and make sure that you know where they are before you get there!
- Check your timetable: the unlucky ones have lectures, seminars or talks during the first week!
- Register with a doctor. You can register with the university health centre on campus or you can register with one in town.
- Attend the library tour (although sometimes they take place in week two).
- Give your parents a call. They might just be missing you by now.
- You may need to see your supervisor. You’ll find out who your supervisor is and where their office is from your department. You may find a sign-up sheet on the door of your supervisor’s office. Pick a 10 or 15-minute slot and go along to see them then.
- Go along to YUSU Fair on the Saturday at the end of the week and sign up to every society that takes your interest, be that bell-ringing or breakdancing or both. There’s lots of free stuff to collect.