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First week of term, and the group chat is already full of status updates about how brutal the course is. You have attended two lectures. One of them was the induction, and you spent it looking for the free pizza.

The first cold snap arrives and a whole corridor of first-years turns up in coats rated for the Arctic. Last week they were in shorts. Nobody has yet worked out what a jumper is for.

You swear on the first night that you'll all get through this together, the whole flat, no worries. By December half of the flat has gone quiet and one bed has been stripped. The kettle is still labelled with their name.

You sit in the front row to show you mean it, notebook open, pen clicked. Eleven minutes in, your chin is on your chest and the lecturer is speaking very gently so as not to wake you.

Why it caught on: the picture shows a smiling young man in a grey university hoodie, with a backpack, earbuds and a phone in his hand, looking thoroughly pleased with his first term. People captioned it as the College Freshman, the eager first-year whose confidence outruns his experience. The stereotype was the keen newcomer who talks big about hard work, dress codes and lasting friendships, then meets the reality of lectures and weather. It spread because anyone who has been to university remembers being that confident.

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