- I have my tea in my hand.
You hit me and I'll kill you.
That was draining to watch.
- Ugh, it's so hot.
- Welcome back to our channel,
on what seemingly is the hottest day of the century.
- It's 29 degrees, and I am l--
hating it, I'm hating it.
I'm sweating here, all around here,
up in here, it's a mess, anyway.
- We did a video with Lucy a few weeks ago now
about university and to find like the
truths about uni that you may not know.
- So we thought we would shed some
light on the truth and the horrors.
And NatWest have approached us and are
sponsoring this video for us to tell you more
about their student account and also, to be
completely honest with you about our uni experience.
- This is the university horror stories.
- Why don't you grab a beer--
- Or a tea.
- Or a non-alcoholic beverage and
come with us along this route of self-exploration.
Our uni experience was exactly what it says on the tin,
an experience, because it happened.
- Ah, expensive, because it was.
The most expensive diet I've ever been on.
And the first thing I'm gonna talk about is overdraft.
- Alright, so you've just, you've made it
through clearing or you've got your
first offer or whatever, well done to you.
The next hurdle-- - The next test.
The next test is making sure you
can actually afford university.
- So NatWest's Student Overdraft
is 500 pound for the first term
of your first year, and then if you
decide to stick around and keep going with
your course, it then becomes 2,000 pounds.
- Do you know how key that is?
- Do you know what you could do with that?
Think of all the possibilities.
- Rent mainly, food probably.
- Alcohol.
- Nights out, maybe, trips away with friends, possibly.
- Holidays, no.
- No, you can't afford a holiday, you're a student.
My biggest gripe is that your food
will get stolen, without a shadow
of a doubt, someone will steal your food.
- Oh, my god, everyone used to lock,
had like a little lock in the fridge,
some of them, mine didn't.
- Yeah, but you know you could break them?
- Mine di--
Why would you break them?
- No I didn't personally break (bleep).
You'll always be cold. - Oh my god.
- As soon as you move out of halls,
if you stayed in halls in your first year,
you'll experience the need to heat your own home,
and oh my god, there's a child screaming.
Basically that overdraft is gonna
come in handy because you will be literally
burning through it to heat your home.
- How much did we spend a week on heating?
- Like 50 pound.
- It was ridiculous.
- I walked--
- 40 minutes.
- Like 20 to 30 minutes all the time, and now I'm like,
I walked five minutes to the train station?
Nah.
Like we deliberately got a flat
next to a train station because
we were like, if we walk more than
five minutes, that's too much.
- You will see so many people in
the first year eating instant noodles--
- That girl came on to me.
- Oh my god, do you remember the girl
that had like carbonara every day?
- No, she, there was another girl
on my floor, that when I, like was,
there was a really gross smell
coming from the kitchen, so a couple of us investigated,
she had toast and she put instant noodles on the toast
and then she grated some cheese on top.
She was so happy with this food revelation
that she concocted, and she was like,
"Guys, you should try it."
I was like, "No."
(baby crying)
- Oh my god, do you remember the kid that went green?
- A kid went green.
- A kid went green on my floor.
He was 18 but he'd come from like,
I think he was from Liverpool.
- Malnutrition is rampant in university.
Just make sure you're nourished
to the point that you need to be, please.
- I think Guinness has got iron in it,
but not enough to substitute for a diet.
So maybe (laughs) don't just rely on that.
- Make sure you eat one orange a week at least, please.
And sometimes I was like, "Well, can't eat this week,
"'cause I really need that new pair of trainers."
Don't do that.
Travel costs a heck of a ton, so it's
really great that the NatWest account
for students has a Coachcard.
- So with the Coachcard that you get
with your NatWest student account,
you get one third off of your standard
coach travel, and if you're coming from
up north, down south, that could be a life saver,
'cause we know you're not getting the train.
- Also you get 10% off trips to great
destinations in Europe, and let's face it,
I know from experience as a student
You could not afford-- - You could not get away.
- You won't be flying anywhere.
You can get coach trips to amazing places.
I went to Italy once, that was fun.
- I remember that was 24 hours on a coach.
- Also it smelled a bit like fart at the end of it.
- He sat next to me, it wasn't enjoyable.
- I had headphones in most of it.
You'll tell these little lies to make
yourself sound more intriguing
or interesting or easy to get along with.
- Oh my god, the first day of uni,
so we were all gathered in our hall's kitchen,
and everyone was like, "Okay we're gonna have an icebreaker.
"You can tell us something fun about yourself."
Went 'round the room, I was like last,
I was like the weird loser on the end, I was like ugh.
I was trying to bond with someone.
I was like, "Yeah, I love that
"band, like they're really great."
And then I carried on this white lie to the point
where they were like sharing music with me
and I was like, "I don't like it."
Do you ever get confused as to why
your mom is obsessed with buy one get one free,
that's half price, third off, that's because
she lives in the real world, and when
you become a student, you will suddenly
put all those years into practice and do it yourself.
- You will stop buying those, like,
red chia seed green teas with like--
- Cocao nib rub.
- Licorice and cacao butt--
- Coffee body scrub.
- You can't afford that, normal people don't buy that.
- There was several people, who I
won't name obviously, in our uni experience
that didn't ever wash their bed.
- Someone had pink bed sheets at
the start of the term, and they
moved out on their last day, and they
were pink around the edges, but the
interior was a grayish mauve color.
- What is that?
Sort your shit out.
- Wash.
- Clean.
- People will be doing rounds for drinks
or you'll be owing people money, and that is the worst.
- You'll have like white boards
and you'll be putting things like,
Sammy owes me this, you owe me--
It won't work.
- Especially if, oh my god, especially
when you're in a shared house and
people are paying, someone's paying rent,
and like someone's-- - Electricity.
- Someone's paying electricity,
someone's paying internet, someone's paying the phone bill.
It get's expensive, so one great thing
with the NatWest Student Account is
they have a great app and you can
transfer money to your friends
in a heartbeat and it's so easy.
- You have their account details
or their phone number linked to their account
and you can just send money that way,
which is so much easier than taking down
everyone's account details, like here's
the sort code, here's your account number.
I guess it's not that much but I'm just really lazy.
To apply for a NatWest Student Account
you need to be 17 years or over, and to be completing
a undergraduate course of at least two years.
- Or completing a postgraduate course,
or training as a nurse at university
or college of higher education.
Also, if you want that arranged overdraft,
you need to be 18 or over, and
a permanent resident of the UK.
Any information that you may need
for this amazing student account
is definitely down there in the description.
- I'm eternally jealous that I didn't
have something like this when I went to uni.
- Just want to say that university
is a great time, it's so much fun.
It is not doom and gloom. - It is most definitely a
life changing, life changing experience.
Let us know if you've got any weird stories by the way.
Maybe you're already at uni watching this.
Bye.
- Thanks for watching guys, see you later.
- Subscribe, give it a like.
- Bye.
- Did it.
- [Woman's Voice] Look in the camera, look in the--
- I've never felt more unattractive
in all my life (laughs).
Just telling him, now don't--
(gasping)
Ugh!
Dying my hair, don't dump me.