Freshers’ nights: debauchery and unnecessary blowing away of money and morals.

If you went to university or you are currently a student, it is highly likely you attended a ‘Freshers Night’. If you are a demon-chasing Christian, while you might not have been a part of it, but I’m sure you’ve heard of it. These events are held just after first year students swarm in with their recently-acquired smartphones and dignity intact. They are advertised all over campus, with the tagline: ‘Kosa Uchekwe.’

Synonymous with these events is the high number of attendance by first year students in search of campus experience and older students on the hunt for fresh meat and easy lay.

These events are the campus version of wild and young nights. In retrospect, many innocent girls lose their virginity during these events.

You only live once, campus students say, as they dance and grind against each other to the beats of trending songs.

As the music plays, usually something with poor vocals and zero harmony, a girl will be lured into male arms with a drink. High on liquid courage, the man will treat her to all the poetry that exists before pants drop. The less classy ones simply use the direct approach system. They have no time and will waste no chance. They skip the poetry and wooing and go straight for the prey.

If walls in university halls and auditoriums could speak, tales of reckless and shameless fornication would be spun.

This is the night when many people are introduced to drugs. A swig here, a puff there, and a whiff the next minute and their relationship with drugs begins. A relationship that outlives most campus relationships.

 The beauty of these events is that they provide seniors who have spent all their years on campus reading and receiving blue ticks, with the perfect opportunity to get young girlfriends to present to the questioning parents.

All their Helb money is spent that night, just so that they can ‘nyakua fresher’.

Admittedly, freshers nights are a rite of passage for most first years. Unlikely friendships that last four years and relationships are made those nights. Nevertheless, they are also an opportunity for debauchery and unnecessary blowing away of money and morals.