My family and I had flown over from Hong Kong as we were living there at the time of applying and turned up to campuses across England in the hope of seeing it. With Loughborough, we happened to park right in front of the old chemistry department that was relocating to west park so the first person we spoke to happened to be a chemistry lecturer. His enthusiasm and passion for the subject was so clear when I spoke to him about the course, and he even showed us the new developments happening in west park. This included STEM lab that was being built that summer ready for the next year, meaning I was only the second year that would use that facility.