{"id":2847,"date":"2017-12-27T23:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T23:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2018-01-11T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:43:43","slug":"turning-18-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2017\/12\/27\/turning-18-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning 18 &#8211; FINALLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Being underage at Imperial isn&#8217;t great, at any university really, but London&#8217;s security in general is quite tight&#8230;\u00a0To be honest, it does not inhibit you of doing anything. However, you will have to do it in a not so conservative way, but try to keep it on the legal side &#8211; just an advice.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, your welcome week won&#8217;t be as fulfilled with nights out as the other students&#8217;. In spite of that I never said that you couldn&#8217;t have fun! Although you can&#8217;t go the clubs, you will be able to party indoors. During the first week there is a lot of prees in the common rooms- JOIN IN. You will have lots of fun, get to talk to everyone and sleep for a good amount of time!<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the red box around your photo on your student ID, that&#8217;s a bit harder! Every Sportsnight (Wednesday), Friday and Saturday night, the Union is secured by -and I have to be honest here and thank them for their patience and politeness when denying my entrance- very nice guards. They are there not only, but also to make sure everyone who is let in is of age. Which means, getting in after roughly 8 pm is impossible. But if you are willing to wait since 7 pm in the union until the night starts, there is no one stopping you!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The most important thing is that you don&#8217;t let your age get in the way of making friends! For me, it wasn&#8217;t a problem at all. Although it was something all my friends were aware of, I wouldn&#8217;t let a number get in my way of having the best time I could!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K7_LwpDI5SY]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being underage at Imperial isn&#8217;t great, at any university really, but London&#8217;s security in general is quite tight&#8230;\u00a0To be honest, it does not inhibit you of doing anything. However, you will have to do it in a not so conservative way, but try to keep it on the legal side &#8211; just an advice. Firstly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}