I fucked up my first day of University.

Dude the only way you're going to find it is to ask people. Leaving the premises will guarantee you don't learn where it is. You have to ask someone. Ask a teacher if you can't talk to the other students

Okay, well, it's just one day. That's not much right? I'm sure there were quite a few people who weren't well today and missed the first day because of that. And even more who were too hungover and slept through the whole thing. But they aren't going to drop out or do badly or anything. First days at uni tend to be just introductions and blah blah boring stuff anyway.

So. What next? Your university will have a student services team. It probably also has maps of the buildings too. It's really really common to not know where you're going when you start uni! How would you know, you're new! Try and find out about student services, or whatever "new student support" system they have there.

When things go wrong, I know it can be super tempting just to give up and leave. But that just makes it worse right? If you'd stayed for your second class rather than walking out, you'd be feeling a whole lot better right now. Use this as a learning experience. Giving up doesn't help. University is not only about learning whatever degree you're doing, but learning life skills too.

Pretty routine stuff, not fun but extremely common. IIRC there's a lot of churn the first week where students drop classes and switch to others, and especially have trouble finding their way around first year. You will be able to catch up no problem.

In my experience, just giving up like you did is always the wrong thing to do. Even if you think you just majorly fucked up you should still try to hang in and do what you can.

Honestly if it was the first day you probably didn't miss anything important.

The first day is the least important! Don't let yourself believe it's over at the first hurdle. Seriously, I met people who started three weeks late into my degree and they were fine! What they did was just ask random people questions - a lot!

It's so normal for people not to know where they're going at uni. I'm graduating in December and I still ask people all the time because I have a terrible memory. No one will think you're weird or even remember it a few minutes later. Just turn to the nearest person and ask them, pretend to be more confident than you really feel, smile and say thanks. Ask three more people if their advice was rubbish or you didn't really understand them!

One thing I think no one tells you about going to uni is that there will be daily opportunities to battle your anxiety in small ways. You can either let that stop you going, or you can take it as a chance to build up skills to cope with new situations. It sounds awful but I promise you it actually feels good when you have done something outside your comfort zone and succeeded.

I really would say do not let it hold you back or change how you feel about uni. You've got this! You'll be so much stronger for getting through these tough days. And eventually you'll be succeeding thanks to your degree, grateful that you didn't pass on this opportunity.

When in doubt try to identify some useful people who will help you! There's nice admin ladies in my school's office who are always there to answer questions. If I'm anxious I always go to them to get advice.

Find out what services the uni has, and let them know about your anxiety ASAP because it might stop you attending classes on bad days. There's a student welfare office here and I see a psychologist there sometimes when I'm struggling to attend - which is really common too by the way! She helps make sure I can get enough help to pass my courses.

And I don't know if it's helpful but here is my secret to asking questions of strangers: I pretend that I'm super busy and important and that they're there to serve me! Like I'm the star of my own show and they're supporting characters...so I can just use them to get where I'm going and not care what they think. That sounds crazy written down but it genuinely makes me feel better haha!