Throughout secondary school, I really enjoyed the sciences. In around year 9 I went onto the National Careers website to look for careers I could do with science subjects and Chemical Engineering caught my eye because at the time Chemistry was my favourite of the sciences. By the time I got to A levels and started doing more research into the course, I soon realised that Chemical Engineering is actually very different from a Chemistry degree, and this was further highlighted by a Chemical Engineering summer school I attended. Despite this, I was still really interested in doing the course due to how diverse the opportunities were career-wise with a degree in Chemical Engineering. I was particularly interested in going into cosmetics or the energy industries at the time.

What I have enjoyed the most about my degree so far is understanding the science behind different processes. I love understanding how things actually work. For example, in my first and second year I did a Thermodynamics module where I learnt about a principle called the ‘Carnot cycle’ which enabled me to understand how refrigeration works. I thought this was really cool as it’s something we all utilise as with many engineering processes.
One of the things I love about the Chemical Engineering course are the resources provided by the lecturers in terms of printed lecture notes to annotate during lectures, so you don't have to worry about printing so many handouts as well as provision of multiple problem sheets on the LEARN platform to help you practice what is being taught in lectures. This has been helpful to my studying for exams. Loughborough also boasts amazing facilities, especially with an upgrade to study areas within the department building and the new state of the art STEMLab building. There are also lots of pre-downloaded software that we use on the course that are available on PCs across the university campus which is great for when you are unable to download software directly to your own PC.