Food and Drink
Visit both Archie’s and/or all 3 Abdul’s in one night
Pretend to be a cyclist (or some other kind of good person) in order to score some free food outside the Union
Eat at Aladdin’s in Didsbury
No, really, eat at Aladdin’s in Didsbury
Visit the Richmond Tea Rooms for some high class afternoon merriment.
Pretend to be super rich and have a cocktail at Cloud 23 at the top of the Hilton
Get a burger at Almost Famous
Arts and Culture
Get into the studio audience at Jeremy Kyle (and proudly share a screenshot of your TV debut with everyone ever)
Do a graffiti walk of the Northern Quarter
Declare yourself ‘totally over’ Parklife, make plans for a full weekend of Grand Designs but then succumb to FOMO at the last minute and hunt down a ticket at treble face value
Go and watch a foreign film at the Cornerhouse (and leave with a slight superiority complex towards the uncultured plebs on the street)
Jazz + pizza = Matt and Phred’s
Nights Out
Pangaea. Enough said.
Attend at least one house party that ends up discussed on national news/BuzzFeed/in Parliament
Go to a concert at the Albert Hall
Fall asleep on the Magic Bus coming back, ideally scoring a ride home afterwards
Get kicked out of Factory for labelling the bouncers homophobic/racist
Lose a shoe to the floor of HMV Ritz
Go to Warehouse Project, lose all of your friends, abandon any hope of finding them and make new ones instead
Miscellaneous
Secure a home visit from Magic Bus Lady (or Kunshal, as she’s known to her true friends)
Play a game of Selfie Bingo with the staff of Fallowfield’s greatest takeaways
Get a spontaneous piercing from Affleck’s
Play My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding at Pastiche
Around University
Make your way onto the Spotted page and revel in your 15 minutes of fame
Have a sleepover in Ali G
Go at least a week on salt/pepper/toilet roll/cutlery you stole from the Library
Check out the view at sunset from the Simon Building sixth floor computer cluster
Become a BNOC (Big Name on Campus)—organise a club night, make loads of friends, run for GenSec and generally be a social butterfly
Graduate?
