Everyone gets nervous before they start university. Everyone fears that they may not make any friends and that they will become a social recluse, outcast from their peers and for some reason rejected from the mainstream student body. Therefore, if you’re feeling even a little bit nervous, then you can rest assured that it is perfectly normal. To try and put your nerves to bed we have asked some students, past and present, to recount their initial experience of being left to fend for themselves.