Friendships: the key to surviving university

Many people will tell you that the way to survives the last few weeks of term and exam season at university is by getting enough sleep, drinking lots of coffee and proper nutrition. I say thats a load of bollocks. That does not mean that the opposite is how to survive university, not sleeping, not drinking coffee and living off of pot noodle. The fact of the matter is the key to surviving the last few weeks of term is friendships and being sociable.

Last year a mate of mine said something when she was a bit drunk, at the time I thought it was quite logical, granted I was a bit drunk as well, but thinking about it now she had a valid point. To quote her, "Friends are like bras they hold each other up". I guess it makes sense but needs a bit of further clarification. Friendships are a bit like the relationship between bra's and boobs. A bra holds boobs up and in place to stop them from crashing to the ground because, the sad but unfortunate truth is," a woman's breasts are a journey the destination is her feet", to quote Sally from the BBC TV series, Coupling.

Friends so a similar thing they hold you up when your tired stressed, exhausted contemplating slamming your head against a wall or alcoholism. They provide humour to take your mind of the never ending mountains of school work. They remind each other that "everything will be alright and if it's not alright it's not the end".  They do little things which make you realize how lucky you are at the end of the day. They make sure that you get enough sleep, and don't over dose on caffene.

The fact of the matter is friends, no matter wether they send you text messages from across the planet telling you that make your day that much better or providing bottomless hugs to being your hermit buddy on the 6th floor of the library are truly wonderful, just like bra's.

Friendships and bra's both stop you from reaching your inevatble journey. As I mentioned earlier, Bras stop your boobs form reaching the grounds, or slow the process down and friendships stop you from going completely insane which will happen to us all once we hit the age of 70.

So, sleep as littler or as much as you want, drink as much coffee as you want and east as unhealthly as you want because all you really need to get through university is a group of wonderful friends, where ever they may be.