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The first one I learned that I wanted to keep him in my life as a best friend cause neither of us had major feelings and it was a typical childish relationship haha. Second one I learned not to blindly put trust into someone who doesn't deserve it, don't let someone disrespect you by coming in and out as it suits them and that I didn't want to date someone who smokes. Third one I learned to appreciate the time spent with someone and avoid listening to people who want to try and get involved with their unwanted opinions. Not every connection is meant to be long lived but it was needed at that time. Fourth one is the one that I learnt the most from. A lot of lessons that were painful but I'm grateful for the experience cause it taught me my worth and it taught me what I do/don't want and what signs to look out for now that I'm no longer young and naive

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It’s definitely encouraged, to the extent that if you don’t drink or drink very little, you are made to feel somewhat of an outsider or weird. It can affect things socially. I was a tad luckier because I commuted, so my excuse was that because my trains were so sporadic, I had to make sure I was a bit more “with it” to be able to get home! I don’t drink at all, but the reasoning behind the commuting seemed to make people understand more, as opposed to the disbelief and shock you get when you mention that you don’t drink!

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On one hand, I think it’s a great way to bond with others to have the “classic uni experience”, of clubbing, pub crawls, etc. You must make a lot of memories that way, and strengthen friendships pretty quickly. It’d just be nicer if the classic uni experience kind of extended beyond that though. I think it does with the arts - no one has time to go to clubs due to the workload, so everyone smokes, gets high and creates art instead, with the occasional drink at the pub, aha. With the academics though, it does seem to be more centred on clubbing and such :)

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I’m a non smoker that includes non vaping I was brought up in a household of smokers it honestly was horrible definitely effected my health when my dad passed my mum was the only smoker in the home but when she got ill she was told to stop so she did so because I was used to non smokers if a family member came over and smoked I’d have to leave the room or be near the window as I’d constantly cough it’s not my place to tell people how to live but I have a friend that now smokes she knows I can’t be around it so she does try her best to limit her smoking when around me she does open the windows for me and spray air freshener baring in mind I’ve never once asked her to change her ways for me but she does it from the bottom of her heart to make me more comfortable in her home but once I’ve been there a couple of hours I do have to go home and shower and change my clothes if not I’ll keep constantly coughing so I personally do dislike smoking because of the smell but vaping I don’t dislike as you can’t smell the nicotine as most vapes have nice scents

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Hey guess what, I was a good friend. I tried so hard to help her and to help her get her life back on track, and she didn't want the help. I did everything I could to try and help her feel better. I knew that she was upset. But that doesn't give anyone the right to lie to me over and over again and that's something I won't tolerate. Now I'm not going to say that she deserves the shit she gets, because no one deserves bad. But I doubt you know her in real life, and your only one of her followers and you see what she wants you to see not what has actually happened. It is not a coincidence that all of her best friends aren't her best friends anymore. We didn't decide to just ditch her. She did something to each and everyone of us to make us leave, and I don't get why y'all don't understand that. We were good friends but we kept getting back stabbed, or lied to. And there comes a point when you don't want to put up with it anymore. But know that I really tried being there for her and to help her, I really did.

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