Life as a student is radically different from being at home. Never underestimate how different life will be once you've fled the nest and washing doesn't magically reappear clean and ironed back in you room, and the rubbish bin needs emptying by you rather than somebody else.
Once you're in your own place it's important to be a responsible member of the community. In city based universities such as Bristol, students live in suburban areas alongside families with young children and professionals who have to get up each day for work. This means that late night noise should be kept inside and with windows closed.
Also students seem to find rubbish and recycling hard to understand. Lots of cities run fortnightly rubbish collection with weekly recycling collections. These are normally sorted into food waste, plastics (not black plastic currently in many areas), cardboard and paper. Check on your local government website for a printable calendar of these dates. In Bristol this is the link
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/page/recycling-and-waste
Make sure that the bins are out on the pavement the night before, and collected back onto your property once the collection has taken place. Most councils won't take extra bags left next to bins so please make sure you recycle as much as possible to ensure that your bin doesn't overflow.
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