Spooky season is here, and Halloween’s right around the corner. If you’re yet to find your Halloween costume, it’s time to start scrolling on Vinted and Shein. But, way scarier than any costume are these things at King’s.
If you haven’t encountered these yet, count yourself lucky. But if you have, then it’s time to re-live your biggest fears. Either way, you’re in for a fright!
1. The lifts at Strand
Tell me why these never work when I’m running late to a tutorial. And if they do work, they stop at every single floor on the way there. I would rather run up the stairs than trust the lifts. Please KCL, fix these lifts!
2. The Hill from Temple Station during the rain
As October draws to a close, the rain pours, and my white air forces get browner. The worst feeling has to be running late to a lecture because of the tube delays (once again, in the rain) and having to get through the most gruelling climb up the hill that just never seems to end.
3. Sports initiation at DC
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then consider yourself lucky. Whichever sports team you join, there are always far too many fruits and nappies involved for my liking, and I’m not even participating.
4. Flatcest
This has to be the most awkward situation any student accommodation has ever witnessed, especially if it’s in your flat. These couples will either be the cutest or the most toxic, and there’s no in between.
Hopefully, you end up with the nice ones who offer you a bite of whatever they cooked together that night, instead of the ones that need to get a room ASAP.
5. Microsoft Authenticator
The absolute worst is when you have a deadline and need to log in, but it takes you through what has to be the longest and most unnecessary verification steps known to man.
Also, shoutout to the poor souls who had issues with theirs during exams (I have honestly never seen someone so stressed).
6. Freshers’ flu
Even if you’re a third-year who hasn’t left the house in a week, it will get you. I promise you that. Freshers’ flu sneaks up on you when you least expect it and somehow doesn’t let go of you like that toxic ex from three years ago. It’s like an autumnal rite of passage.
7. The ‘organisations’ in the strand courtyard trying to lure you in
The stalls in the courtyard seem harmless…that is, until they have you signing up for a mailing list that seems weirdly ominous or a too good to be true deal for your next “fun day out”. Steer clear!
8. Chesham building
Have you ever had a class in this building? Have you even heard of this building? If the answer to both of those is no, then count yourself lucky. You can’t get into this building without going through another building.
It would be a world record if you could find it building without asking at least two welcome ambassadors.
9. Waterloo campus
Nothing more needs to be said. Ew.
10. Pulling out your phone at the Maughan Library round table
With everyone so locked in and typing furiously, I don’t think you could get away with even a minute of doom-scrolling without feeling shamed into putting your phone away. All the med students have been there for four hours without even a bathroom break.
11. Finding a spot to sit at the Shack
What a cute little study space, right? Well, yes, but only if you can find a place to sit. Lunch hour at the Shack is worse than a store on Oxford Street during Black Friday.
12. Seeing an ex-situationship on campus
A Hinge match gone wrong or a night out regretted. Either way, yikes. This might just be the one time you wish you were lost on campus.
13. Walking into a lecture ten minutes late
Everyone, and I mean everyone, including the lecturer, turns to look at you as you awkwardly make your way through the crowd of people and find a spot to sit down, slowly pull out your laptop, and try to act nonchalant about the whole thing.
