LITTLE THINGS: A LIST

• When you get a good seat in the library with a window view on your favourite floor 

• When a really boring lecture ends and you get to leave

• Spontaneous pints in the middle of the day

• Going to the cinema and smuggling your own snacks in 

• Queuing for half an hour to get a Paesano (worth it)

• On that note: Number 5 pizza at Paesano 

• Subcrawls

• Returning your library books on time and being proud of it 

• Tinnies in Kelvingrove Park

• Bumping into someone you know in Byers Road Tesco

• Those shops in the West End that are 24 hours where you can go and buy late night snacks and cheap sweets in a paper bag

• The aesthetics of the main building/cloisters

• Getting in from the rain and making a cup of tea

• Beer gardens

• Packing yourself a really good packed lunch for a day of uni and looking forward to eating it all day

• Getting friends’ life updates, news and gossip

• Doing your make-up and being really happy with it 

• McFlurrys (the oreo one) 

• 727 chips and cheese 

• Waking up the morning after a night out, calling the group chat and discussing the scandalous events of the evening 

• Wholesome dinner parties

• Pints of fun (shout out to watermelon flavour – no hate please)

• Looking for a book in the library and successfully finding it 

• The butter chicken pizza from Bank Street (it’s half pizza, half curry and is UNREAL)

• Sleepovers

• Taking a full hour study break in the level 3 library café you absolutely did not deserve

• Walking home after a night out

• Making new friends in the club toilet

• Successfully scrapping through a seminar when you’ve not done the reading for it 

• Pres

• Taking your makeup off after a night out

• Going for an ice cream and watching the sun go down 

• That outside bit at Vodka Wodka 

• Jolly Ranchers at Vodka Wodka 

• Getting really dressed up for a black-tie event 

• Union kitchen chicken burgers

• Watching all the dogs outside whilst having a pint at Inn Deep

• Waking up and you go into your flat kitchen and you’ve done all the dishes

• Browsing in a book shop

• Relaxing after a long day of work and knowing you’ve earned it

• Evening walks

• Checking your bank balance the morning after Hive (Regretting it? It was worth it???) 

• Library cookies

• £1 library hot chocolate

• When you put a song on a jukebox and it gets played 

• Buying a new outfit and getting really excited to wear it

• Samosas from Rajous

• Submitting uni work or meeting deadlines and then being able to actually go out and celebrate properly 

• Going for brunch or coffee with friends

• Going on a train, going on a bus, literally anything to do with travelling

• When everything on your social media and news is not about the pandemic

• Ceilidhs 

• Bake sales

• Watching the rugby with a pint 

• Seeing a squirrel in botanic gardens

• Base Bar karaoke

• Concerts

• Theatre 

• Going to see the animals at Kelvingrove Art Gallery on an afternoon

• Themed dress-up flat parties

• Day tripping 

• Drinking games

• Going on the subway (the train)

• Going to Subway (for a sandwich)

• Wearing a dress or a skirt

• When a charity society is doing a glitter stall in Hive and you get your face all sparkly

• Making friends and chatting in the smoking area 

• Greggs empire biscuits

• Greggs sausage rolls

• Small talk with Uber drivers

• When you cook a meal for someone and it’s good

• When someone cooks a meal for you

• Charity shops 

• A relaxing game of pool or snooker at the end of the day

• Asking for your katsu curry at Bank Street to come with curly fries instead of rice

• Lying on the big green sofas around the Union

• Being able to sit on a bench outside

• Looking at cheap flights on Skyscanner and actually booking some

• Reading a book in a park

• Eating toast while walking to uni when you’re running late 

• When you’re leaving a class with someone and they’re walking in the same direction as you

• Hugs when hungover

• Hugs with someone you haven’t seen in ages

• Hugs with someone you only saw yesterday 

• Having a reason to wear jeans 

• Appreciating lazy days and being indoors

• Tesco meal deals 

• Literally everything about Beer Bar

• Lying on grass

• Celebrating a friend’s birthday properly – wearing a party hat, sharing a birthday cake, giving a present

• Going out for a meal!!!!! Literally anywhere!!!!!

• All the little tiny characteristics and mannerisms of your friends