Still Panicking: How to Go to University
Nobody Panic
Plosive, Tessa Coates and Stevie Martin
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Still Panicking: Summer is drawing to a close and a new term is about to begin, so this week we look back at Stevie and Tessa's top tips for easing back into school/university/work life.
Going to uni and no idea what to expect? Stevie lost her mind during second year so had to defer and Tessa turned up on the first day alone because her parents were on holiday – here’s what they learned. NB while the practicalities differ from uni to uni, the emotional business remains the same, which is what this ep is alllll about.
This episode was first released on 30 August 2022.
Recorded by Ben Williams and edited by Clarissa Maycock for Plosive.
Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Nobody Panic. Hello, hello, hello. This is a special one. Yeah. It's dedicated to two lovely girls who came to the Salisbury International Arts Festival. |
| 0:26.3 | Instead of revising, they were both called Natalie. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello, Natalie. |
| 0:30.5 | Natalie Squared. |
| 0:31.9 | They came up afterwards, said they've bought our book, but they hadn't brought it with them. |
| 0:36.8 | Instead, they'd brought |
| 0:37.6 | their English textbook for their A-level exam, which I think was the next day, and said, |
| 0:43.4 | could you sign this instead? The textbook, which the exam was on, was untouched. It was, |
| 0:49.2 | it was. The spine was not broken. The spine was unbroken. That thing was the cleanest thing I'd ever seen. |
| 0:55.2 | They were supposed to have been studying that for the last year. Fantastic. Good luck to them, I say. |
| 0:59.6 | And they said, please would you do how to go to university? We are in our final year and we're going to |
| 1:05.9 | university in the autumn. And here we are. Here we are. Because we've both been. |
| 1:11.4 | We've both been. |
| 1:08.0 | So we've got... And a bunch of you are going. It's now September, which means it's a coming. It's uni time unless you're going to one of the Oxbridge ones. And I think that starts in like October or something, doesn't it? It's much later. It's boring. No, but of course... They start in the autumn. or all round about now. |
| 1:08.8 | Yes, they do. |
| 1:09.7 | It's been obviously very long, |
| 1:10.4 | incredibly long time, seven decades since we went to university. So certain things have changed. But having been to a couple of, like, nobody panics in, like, university towns and having like spoken to students and stuff, like, you're like, like no it is sort of vaguely the general thing |
| 1:44.2 | is the same the general vibe is the same isn't it yeah we thought we'd give you our hot tips |
| 1:48.7 | because obviously both of us completely ace university smashed it i of course re-did a year |
| 1:53.2 | because i'm so bad at it oh yeah it just takes you such a long time to work it out doesn't it |
| 2:00.7 | yeah by which time it's like too it's too late. Yeah. Yeah. So also that would probably be the theme running through it is that it's almost like when we were doing that episode about how to do the Edinburgh Fringe properly back in August. And one of the things we kept saying was like you can't do it all and you're not you have to submit to it well |
| 2:18.0 | you're not going to have to get everything right and you're not going to look back and go oh we should |
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