I am off to meet some freshers and do the things that freshers in 2019 do. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The GuardianOn campus, at first glance, freshers’ week is as it ever was. “But it’s a nice place to be lost.” It is her first day and she is finding freshers’ week “a bit scary”. I thought I remembered almost nothing of freshers’ week, but when I got off the tube at Hillhead subway station in the West End I experienced what the novelist Muriel Spark described as “an inpouring of love” for those intense days. A 1997 freshers’ guide sent to me by the archive department introduced the week as a “pre-term drinking and entertainment extravaganza organised in your honour”.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 09:56 UTC