Top tips for freshers.

You go out of the high school, arrive in a new establishment, particularly different. It is obvious that you will settle hundreds of questions.
Freshers, welcome to the university !

For your first year, it is essential to soak you on this new atmosphere. Your future is between your hands.

In the first place, spot the main places and the persons to whom you send in case of problem. There will be for it some conferences and meetings, sorts of pre-comebacks which shall allow you to get acquainted with the administration. You will also meet the BDE, it is a pupils' association which know since a certain number of years the university and its functioning. The BDE will guide you towards the good persons, and will know how to learn you to integrate the university, by the way of exits, evenings of integration... You can find a large number of informations concerning the means of integrations in the various meeting places which are in the establishment. You will always meet bulletin boards of all kinds (evenings, request / offer of accommodation / work...). It is very important to meet, not to remain alone. Have friend, bring out little. Be sociable and natural, the students are thirsty of meeting, you will quickly discover it.

It is also important to familiarize you with the working rhythm. You will have a more or less supported timetable, to you to manage your personal work. Forget your prejudices on the faculty, the higher education asks for a considerable investment, no matter the sector.

I also advise you to find a sports activity. It can be the means to meet the other students, to widen your circle of knowledge, but also of you let off stream a little, and to keep a good health. Difficult to eat balanced when we are student. Not always the time to go to the university canteen, you will be bored in front of sandwiches and paninis fat... Bad idea. Put you in the cooking ! Concoct your own meal and take it with you. Your body will be grateful to you for it, and you too. It is not the moment to have a depression because of your cellulite.

You can also find a job,  that will allow you to put some money aside, to help your relatives to finance the expenses which costs the student life, either to please you from time to time...

To conclude, move, inquire, put a lot, and do not forget that you are not there to party, but to work.

I wish you a happy new school year. Let's have fun, while keeping your seriousness.

Where you can go.

There is a good place in Grenoble where you can go with your friend that I advise to you.

If you like party, meet people, you can go to the LONDON PUB. It is not just a bar to drink some alcohol (although, this side, the prices are very interesting: I am talking about Happy Hours). Most of the students meet low there, to cross an evening with friends. We find a festive atmosphere there. Because many are foreign, students go there to meet, in many theme evenings. Really nice and welcoming place, where you can dance too, listen to Pop Rock music. The waiters are pleasant and available for any service. Certainly, the bar is rather small, and sometimes one feels cramped by entering it but once inside, we feel good there. It is considered as one of the oldest bar of Grenoble. We feel there as at home.

I am sure that with your friend you will feel comfortable, because, as indicates it the name, it is an English bar. 

That will change exits to the museum.

Enjoy it.

To go there, you just have to take the TRAM and to arrest you at the rulling Notre-Dame Museum, you cross the Place Notre-Dame, walk past the cathedral. Then, turn to the right and commite you in the street of Brocherie. You will recognize the pub, with its red facade. To reach in, you will enter even an English phone box !