I am now 2 weeks into university life, and it looks like freshers week was definitely over rated. Not much that interests me was going on, only thing that I found interesting was languages. I have a passion for language, fluent in 2 languages and have a GCSE in German, though I wouldn't be able to have a conversation with a German person (tried it once in Frankfurt and failed) .
There was a beginners Italian class going on at a convenient time which I attended, Italian sounds so amazing when spoken and their culture seems full of life. The beginning was quite easy "Come si chiama" which means whats your name. But then it got so difficult so fast and I realised that I was being superficial in a way. I expected it to be easy and sound like the stereotypes.
Then I decided that since its possible to get credits for languages and increased employability, I'd revisit my good old freund (friend) German.
Obviously with all things in life there was a catch, you could only do it if your course was less than a certain amount of credits, with biochemistry you pretty much have a full timetable credits wise- don't even get me started with contact hours. So... the only way for me to carry on with German and have it accredited is if I pay for it, and with the cost of tuition fees I'm not willing to pay a penny more.

University is nothing like I thought it would be like. which is disappointing. You never see the same people again, in two of my lectures there are 350 people, every time I go I see someone I haven't seen before. At my uni we only have lectures and practical (practical's are once a week). so we literally have no interaction with our teachers, where other universities have seminar and/or tutorials, we have questions set online weekly which aren't even marked. Meaning you're on your own and it's also harder to make friends that way. So far I've only made 2, and have forgotten the name of one already :/
What's really annoying though is that they started this whole 'online tutorial' this year because in previous years students didn't turn up, and I for one am really pissed that I'm paying for others wrong doings.