what the first years should do is go on the yellow shirt thing were you give them your timetable and they take you to your individual classrooms/theatres. i'm geographically retarded so that saved my life in my first week of uni.
i was the last uai year. i got 94.90. no i do not regret comm/eco. the two degrees complement eachother nicely. yes i think it's hard but not unmanageable.
most mainstrem "artists" nowdays write one half decent line, fill the rest of the 3 minutes with them repeating it over and over with minimal other words, flog electronics and auto tune to death, then: wallah, they have a "song".