it is a total cockbite, going into uni (or anywhere), spesh when everyone seems to know each other. the first-week blues can hit awful hard (as well as the final-month...)
particularly if the weather is bobbins and your timetable sucks eggs.
Try to spread yourself around a bit and get to know people, even if its through house/flat/hall/roommates, or joining a club. Can be tricky I know too well, but make the leap. I both moved into a house where everyone was 3rd year continuing from living together the year before (someone left), and joined what seemed to be a pretty tight-knit cliquey diving club at the start of my 2nd year. Ended up getting on well with pretty much everyone in weeks, and i'm no social wonderboy at all. Folk can be surprisingly friendly and open to the "new kid" so long as you're not horrible to them!
(and in the 3rd year i somehow wound up getting to know a lot of fairly unhinged and unwashed folk in the anime club rather too well, after going along because a free projector-screening of some classic ani films was flyered all over the place - less said about that TOO easy to get friendly experience the better... let it be a warning, dont get too desperate and beware of those who are!)
I would say something here about the friendly atmosphere of edinbro, but as i saw it for 3 days in festy season it probably isnt representative.
Chin up kid... you don't wanna hear this of course... but there's a whole 9 months to get thru... dont mope just yet as a couple weeks is no representative sample of a place
get onto your students union right away and see if they have a free student counsellor or anyone, if it's all too much.
Why are you on such a punishing schedule by the way? Even things as they are now in this nation, uni life should be giving you more opportunity for rolling in at 5am* than getting up at that time.. sounds dreggy awful.
And, ignore any fool who's giving you evil looks because of the fresher's flu (lots of people from different places together = lots of new varieties of common cold you havent immunity to for you to catch). Everyone gets a cough or cold from time to time. Just make as if they're not there. If you listen out you may find you're certainly not the only one hacking away.
It'll be your turn to give all the uncaring sods dirty - and knowing - looks when it comes back round to their turn to get ill. With any luck they'll get the same spawned-from-the-devils-arse viral throat infection i had at the start of ALL THREE YEARS which has no remedy but patience, and so many ibuprofen and strepsils that you start to trip out.
Was in bad shape first night in hall, just in pieces, really didnt want to be there, worried i'd picked a course that i'd hate, stuck in grotty prison-like room in a town that p1sses rain..... til the more gregarious neighbours banged on the door and dragged me, reluctantly, to the bar. A few conversations and a couple beers later and it didnt seem so bad. First week was still a bind, but it got better.
And in the final month it was clear the course wasnt really lighting my fire any more, and the project was going to hell, ready to just quit and work for maccy D's... made it through alive however.
* particularly that punk/goth club down on...... er..... its one of those roads which has another road built 20ft up across it.... sorry, i was drunk! But it's open til either 3 or 5 in the morning, depending on the "night"
