Written by: Amy McKenzie Smith
- When you get a good seat in the library with a window view on your favourite floor
- When a really boring lecture ends and you get to leave
- Spontaneous pints in the middle of the day
- Going to the cinema and smuggling your own snacks in
- Queuing for half an hour to get a Paesano (worth it)
- On that note: Number 5 pizza at Paesano
- Subcrawls
- Returning your library books on time and being proud of it
- Tinnies in Kelvingrove Park
- Bumping into someone you know in Byers Road Tesco
- Those shops in the West End that are 24 hours where you can go and buy late night snacks and cheap sweets in a paper bag
- The aesthetics of the main building/cloisters
- Getting in from the rain and making a cup of tea
- Beer gardens
- Packing yourself a really good packed lunch for a day of uni and looking forward to eating it all day
- Getting friends’ life updates, news and gossip
- Doing your make-up and being really happy with it
- McFlurrys (the oreo one)
- 727 chips and cheese
- Waking up the morning after a night out, calling the group chat and discussing the scandalous events of the evening
- Wholesome dinner parties
- Pints of fun (shout out to watermelon flavour – no hate please)
- Looking for a book in the library and successfully finding it
- The butter chicken pizza from Bank Street (it’s half pizza, half curry and is UNREAL)
- Sleepovers
- Taking a full hour study break in the level 3 library café you absolutely did not deserve
- Walking home after a night out
- Making new friends in the club toilet
- Successfully scrapping through a seminar when you’ve not done the reading for it
- Pres
- Taking your makeup off after a night out
- Going for an ice cream and watching the sun go down
- That outside bit at Vodka Wodka
- Jolly Ranchers at Vodka Wodka
- Getting really dressed up for a black-tie event
- Union kitchen chicken burgers
- Watching all the dogs outside whilst having a pint at Inn Deep
- Waking up and you go into your flat kitchen and you’ve done all the dishes
- Browsing in a book shop
- Relaxing after a long day of work and knowing you’ve earned it
- Evening walks
- Checking your bank balance the morning after Hive (Regretting it? It was worth it???)
- Library cookies
- £1 library hot chocolate
- When you put a song on a jukebox and it gets played
- Buying a new outfit and getting really excited to wear it
- Samosas from Rajous
- Submitting uni work or meeting deadlines and then being able to actually go out and celebrate properly
- Going for brunch or coffee with friends
- Going on a train, going on a bus, literally anything to do with travelling
- When everything on your social media and news is not about the pandemic
- Ceilidhs
- Bake sales
- Watching the rugby with a pint
- Seeing a squirrel in botanic gardens
- Base Bar karaoke
- Concerts
- Theatre
- Going to see the animals at Kelvingrove Art Gallery on an afternoon
- Themed dress-up flat parties
- Day tripping
- Drinking games
- Going on the subway (the train)
- Going to Subway (for a sandwich)
- Wearing a dress or a skirt
- When a charity society is doing a glitter stall in Hive and you get your face all sparkly
- Making friends and chatting in the smoking area
- Greggs empire biscuits
- Greggs sausage rolls
- Small talk with Uber drivers
- When you cook a meal for someone and it’s good
- When someone cooks a meal for you
- Charity shops
- A relaxing game of pool or snooker at the end of the day
- Asking for your katsu curry at Bank Street to come with curly fries instead of rice
- Lying on the big green sofas around the Union
- Being able to sit on a bench outside
- Looking at cheap flights on Skyscanner and actually booking some
- Reading a book in a park
- Eating toast while walking to uni when you’re running late
- When you’re leaving a class with someone and they’re walking in the same direction as you
- Hugs when hungover
- Hugs with someone you haven’t seen in ages
- Hugs with someone you only saw yesterday
- Having a reason to wear jeans
- Appreciating lazy days and being indoors
- Tesco meal deals
- Literally everything about Beer Bar
- Lying on grass
- Celebrating a friend’s birthday properly – wearing a party hat, sharing a birthday cake, giving a present
- Going out for a meal!!!!! Literally anywhere!!!!!
- All the little tiny characteristics and mannerisms of your friends
