## Step 6: Moving in & first year

`community/journey-settle` · Student voices · From Campus Binge's data, as of 2026-07-23 · community view

The part nobody preps you for — housing, and finding your feet.

| Fact | Value | Trust |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Feeling like an outsider in year one is universal. Everyone feels it. Talk to two or three new people a day; your group forms slowly, and that's normal. | community view |
| Essential | Vet PGs and brokers hard. Overcharging and dodgy brokers are rampant — factor in commute exhaustion, and never sign the first place. Roommates and locality make or break the year. | community view |
| Essential | Protect your first-semester CGPA. Under relative grading it's hard to pull back up later; take genuinely scoring optionals. | community view |
| Essential | Street-smart basics. Common metro / helpful-stranger scams are real, use shared e-rickshaws for last-mile, claim student discounts, and issue the library books you're already paying for. | community view |

Sources:
1. Campus Binge journey essentials (written from the student-voices corpus), 2026-07-23