It is the start of term for thousands of university students, with all the upheaval, confusion and sense of dislocation that can bring.
Bobbie is a 20-year-old just beginning a fine art course in the unfamiliar surroundings of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
She is writing an online diary for Ouch!, the BBC's disability website, detailing her experiences as a fresher.
You can follow her story on the website for four weeks.
In her first instalment, she wrote: "I am genuinely happy to be here, and proud of myself for being in a good university!"
"I'm also so relieved to meet flatmates and new people who don't run screaming when I smile nervously at them."
Bobbie is studying fine art at Aberystwyth
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She is already amazed to have won praise for having sorted out her disabled students' allowance.
"Organised?" she writes. "Me? Organisation and Bobbie cannot be put into the same sentence without a negative in place somewhere."
She then goes on to admit that a previous attempt to do the same at her previous college, Kent Institute of Art and Design was not so successful - despite the best efforts of her dyslexia adviser, she lost three sheets explaining how to apply for it.
A profile of Bobbie and the first instalment of her diary can be found by clicking on the link below the above picture.
You will also find similar diaries by three other disabled students around the UK, and you can return to the same site for instalments in subsequent weeks.
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