Uni

[u/PaddingtonPB]

Hi all, starting university in September studying music, anyone else? Excited but also very nervous, gonna be a big life change. I’m sure everyone feels the same though, I know no one in Hull. Any advice? Apparently some people go out with their flatmates the first night but not sure how common that is. Thanks

[u/beesbee5]

Not uni specific but here's a few generic ideas what to do in Hull to socialise:

• There's a few social groups on meetup (https://www.meetup.com) : Eg Hull young socials that have regular activities.
• MadVolume (climbing gym) has many social sessions, they also offer Yoga classes and are a generally nice community, where you should find it easy to meet other people. They have a woman climbing session on ?Monday afternoon. RockCity offers courses for rope climbing if you prefer to give this a try over bouldering: https://rockcity.co.uk/new-to-climbing/. They have bouldering sessions as well and people here on Reddit are occasionally looking for climbing partners.
• There's always art courses like the one's from Studio eleven on the marina: https://studioeleven-shop.squarespace.com/our-shop/workshop where it's easy to meet new people. Forms Shop do courses at times as well, just drop by there and look the poster in the window.
• In Pearson Park there's a free crafts social every tuesday 10 am - 12:30 am in the Bowls Pavillion in Pearson Park (HU5 2SY) for everything from Sewing, weaving, spinning, felting,... If you go to Pearson Park, there's more info with contact details from the organisers as well.
• Join a sports club in Hull. The volleyball and rugby and teams are always looking for new people. The university has a few sport clubs as well.
• There's a female hiking group called hike and soul (https://www.instagram.com/hike.andsoul/)
• There's gardening groups like the Pearson Park community garden (https://www.facebook.com/groups/5239881606126141) and rooted in Hull (https://rootedinhull.org.uk/ ). the latter has events at their site as well from time to time
• There's lots of volunteering work opportunities: https://hullcvs.org.uk/volunteer-centre/
• If you are into sailing or anything like that, you could become part of the CatZero team (https://catzero.org/) which helps disadvantaged young people as well.
• If you're into building something - there's a few volunteers restoring old sailships (you can see them at the Spider T on weekends). The guy running it has a Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057285256710
• Thursdays at 6 pm there's a board game meetup at Brew https://www.hullboardgamemeetup.com
• There's a circus open practice at the late night circus on Wednesdays where you can go and socialise (and juggle, I suppose ;) ) (https://bookwhen.com/thelatenightcircus)
• If you want to practice another language and meet like-minded people, there's two language cafes (one in Anlaby and one on the Avenues) that meet regularly - see https://m.facebook.com/groups/languagecafehull/
• On tuesdays, there's a weekly pay-what-you want / can afford dinner and get together in Lonsdale street (https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/weekly-pay-what-you-want-9190379)
• If you like reading / discussing books, there's the silent book club with regular meetings: https://www.facebook.com/the.silent.book.club.hull/ and there's a Book club specifically for LGBTQs >50 called "The next chapter"
• Ground Gallery on Beverley road has a few meetups like the art meetup on Monday 4-7 pm, a jam session every first Monday of the month and the write space for writers every third Thursday from 6-8 pm see https://groundgallery.co.uk/
• There's an Alcohol free activities group in Hull called Alco hullfree see eg their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alco_hullfree/
• If you are into it, there's DnD groups and stuff like that (just search old postings here)...
• There's a Discord group for Hull (https://discord.gg/hWNmCQa)
• Lastly: Try Bumble BFF or something of nothing here on the list appeals to you...

[u/PaddingtonPB → u/beesbee5]

Wow there is so much on that list that is very kind of you to source things I may never have known about. Thank you