Thank you for sharing this. It's such a difficult situation for students right now.

As someone who had serious 'freshers' flu' for the first three weeks of my time at Oxford, I know that missing out on those early gatherings has a MASSIVE impact on your university life.

I didn't make friends at all in my four years, and a lot of that was down to being 'out of circulation' for the first few weeks.

The only good thing about this situation for students in 2020 is that all of them are in the same boat. Though that's not a consolation right now.