The start of a new university term isn’t all drinking and vomiting, despite what you may read (or remember from your own days avoiding the library).

UCLU this year saw 11,000 students over two days stream through the main UCL buildings in central London to view 150+ student-led clubs and societies, as well as commerical stalls ranging from Apple (whose stall consisted simply of two staff members and a laptop – literally nothing else) to graduate recruiters.

Getting 11,000 people through is no mean feat, and queues into the fayre at one point stretched out through UCL’s main quad and into Gower Street. Even on the quieter second day, it took me 11 minutes to walk as fast as I could around the fayre, filming for an updated freshers video – how long it takes for someone to get through while stopping to sign up and chat to societies, I don’t care to imagine!

The shot above is of Soraia, co-President of UCLU MODO, the fashion society. They are in many ways my favourite society (judging by the amount of material on here coming from their events!), and I may have entered into a foolish wager: if MODO have the highest number of members by February, I’ll be walking down their catwalk in one of Soraia’s dresses…