Freshers' Week

Lena Gryaznova University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Date

September 7, 2014

The past few days included going to Calton Hill, the National Monument, the City Observatory, the Nelson Monument, Dugald Steward Monument, and fun in a telephone booth.

I also settled in to my flat, what will be home for the next few months, met my flat mates, and explored campus. Currently it's “Freshers’ Week”, which is a week jam-packed with activities where you can meet new people and get some important insight about being a student here. I learned that the campus library has a cat that wanders the stacks and naps in chairs, which was quite a fun fact to learn.

One thing that I cannot get over is Teviot, which is their student union center and it looks a bit like what I would imagine Hogwarts to be like. It seems to be so much cooler of a student center than the one at my home Uni.*

*they call University ‘Uni’

Categories

Scotland