With Fresher’s week well and truly finished students have managed an impressive 5 million slices of pizza, 840,000 kebabs and over 1 million empty pint glasses.
Fresher’s Week, the first week of the academic year at Universities across the UK is renowned for being a week of students letting their hair down without their parents around. Accepted placements was up on last year by 44,523 according to UCAS this year.
Just Eat, the UK’s leading online takeaway ordering site noticed a huge rise in takeaway orders from student halls and decided to take a closer look.
Based on averages Just-Eat found from surveying 1,628 Freshers, here is Fresher’s Week in numbers:
Takeaways – takeaways are an essential part of any student’s diet. Pizzas Have always been popular with students however this year they proved to be a big success, kebabs are obviously still popular in any students diet:
Pizza – the average student ate 12 slices of pizza this Fresher’s Week, totalling 5,035,524 slices of pizza (based on the intake of 419,627 applicants this year)
Alcohol – of course students live up to their stereotype and overindulge in the first week
- Pints – the male fresher population an average drank 6 pints a night which means a grand total of 1,258,881 pints were finished off over the week
– Spirits – females drank an average of 34 measures throughout the week creating a whopping total of 7,133,659 spirit measures
– Shots – 14 shots were drunk per person on average last week, or 5,874,778 slammers
Paracetamol – the dreaded hangover, what would true night be without having to deal with a hangover in the morning? Paracetamol companies will be pleased with students claiming taking an average of 10 tablets so an amazing 262,267 packs have been consumed throughout the week
Fancy dress outfits – fancy dress plays a large part in the first week of most students’ Uni lives, and this year was no exception. 3 in 4 fresher’s said they dressed up with an average of 4 costumes used throughout the week. At this rate, 1,258,881 guises were worn by apparently drunken students.