The results are in with Fresh weeks over for another year and the new student have drunk their way through over 1 million pints, 5 million slices of pizza and 840,000 kebabs.
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. UCAS stated 419,627 applicants had a place confirmed this year which was an increrase of 44,523.
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 – take aways 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 – pizza still a popular choice with average student eating 12 slices totalling 5,035,524 slices of pizza
Alcohol – students wouldn’t be students if they didn’y overindulge on their first week of freedom from their parents:
- 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 is always a big hit a University as this year was no different. Fresher’s said they used an average of 4 fancy dress costumes in the week with 3 out of 4 students dressing up. At this rate, 1,258,881 guises were worn by apparently drunken students.
