<p>Here’s what I’ve found different so far this semester in England from my home “uni” :P</p>
<p>Less house parties/more going to bars- Everyone is legal, so everyone can just go to the bars. There aren’t any “keggers,” hardly any beer pong, and while there are still drinking games they’re just for “predrinks” before you go to the bar/club.</p>
<p>More fancy dress- Everyone loves to get dressed up in some theme with the rest of their club/society for a social night out…even when no one else is dressing up. Sometimes it gets ridiculous too, like next week the guys water polo team (which I’m on) is going out in a speedo, cape, and mask for a Halloween social.</p>
<p>Less time in “lecture”- And there’s a lot less overall homework. The syllabus gives you suggestions of what to read to supplement what you learned in class, and you often don’t even have to buy books for classes</p>
<p>You can walk just about anywhere with a beer in hand on campus, walking from campus bar to campus bar, and no one will stop you. People start drinking here a lot earlier too (7-8 PM rather than 10 PM-12 AM in the states for when you start).</p>
<p>Sports here are taken less seriously at the university level. I’m a varsity athlete at home, and over here I practice less, drink more, and just have a more general carefree attitude to my sport. We still practice here a good amount, but not with the same intensity as being an NCAA athlete. Which is nice :)</p>
<p>Oh, and they say “modulus” instead of absolute value, “zed” instead of zee (for Z), and in math natural log is written simply as “log.” This has been driving me up the wall in my math classes.</p>
<p>This all of course is in addition to all the general English/American differences.</p>