One of the main features that has attracted me about Loughborough University was the fact that it was offering a placement with my course. Moreover, it was highly ranked despite not being a Russell Group university. I thought at that time: “Surely, there must be something special about this university.”
I was impressed by the positive vibes I was receiving from the students and noticed how happy they looked, and the friendly environment among the staff. It was my first time experiencing what I would later call the “Loughborough bubble”. This was not the first university I had visited but could clearly feel the difference in atmosphere, something that I could not feel it from the other universities.
Like many fellow natural scientist students, when I was applying for university, I was not quite ready to specialise in one STEM subject over the other. It was also the thrill and the challenge of carrying two STEM subjects which in my case is Chemistry and Mathematics. There have been many occasions where I found the course to be rewarding like a view that you get to see once you have climbed on the top of a mountain.