But Christie points out that the main idea was to give young people a space to share thoughts with one another about starting their university lives.
But what do students themselves think of freshers' week – did it start their university year off with a bang, or leave them whimpering?
If, however, any Englishman cares to see himself as a foreigner, he should join one of the courses on "English life" that are arranged at this time of year for the many students from overseas who are about to start their university or college life.
This difference is reflected in our data: 54% of the German master's students completed an apprenticeship before starting their university education, compared with 4% in Austria.
This study explored pre-service primary teachers' attitudes towards collaborative learning with video games to examine whether they have a positive attitude when they start their university studies, which can affect their training about this topic.
"Candidates who start their own societies, organise their university ball or start their own T-shirt-making business while at uni tend to have a good grasp of how a business makes money," says Cary Curtis, managing director of Give-a-grad-a-go.
Young students starting their first year at university are also in transition to adulthood.
*The French National Research Agency set up the Jeunes Chercheuses et Jeunes Chercheurs program to help young scientists within French national research centers and universities start their own research lines or independent group.
The 20-year-old who has left their family, for the first time, not to go to university, or start their first job, but to travel thousands of miles across several continents with strangers, in the most unimaginable conditions?
