Every university has its own unique quirks that add to the daily lives of their students. Loughborough is no exception. From the cat at Pilks, to the que at the Union. Keep reading to find out what a typical day in the life of a Loughborough student is like!<\/p>\n
It is barely daylight outside yet you manage to pull yourself out from underneath the warm covers of your student bed because quite frankly, you need to.<\/p>\n
As well as this, any food you can find (probably last night\u2019s dinner) you\u2019ll eat to get some early morning energy before the day ahead. After this you will head back to your room and dress yourself in everything Nike and Kukri, literally head to toe. Nike trainers, leggings, Kukri tops and then lastly you will put on your African Violet Loughborough AU hoodie that on the front specifies which sport you do; because you have to show that you do AU sport.<\/p>\n
You put in your headphones and put some tunes on to get you pumped for this hard core session you are about to endure. You meet your training squad and you start talking about the week\u2019s antics at Stuesdays or Hey Ewe. But as you\u2019re a Loughborough student athlete,\u00a0most of the squad didn\u2019t go out because you\u2019re all dedicated to training of course.<\/p>\n
However, there\u2019s good news. Your coach tells you there\u2019s no training tomorrow which means you can all have a social later on that night and get off your face. You are buzzed, squad socials are the messiest things. So you destroy your training session and it\u2019s time to leg it to your 9am lecture in James France.<\/p>\n
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You sit next to a few of your course mates and you all mentally prepare yourself for the next two hours that will drag. The lecturer is far too enthusiastic at this time in the morning and the tiredness begins to set in. You can feel yourself slowly slumping in your seat which conveniently means you\u2019re hid behind your MacBook Air. Finally, the lecture ends.<\/p>\n
You pass the library cat, wander in there and realise there\u2019s literally nowhere to sit. You rush down to the lower floors in an attempt to find a seat but you just end up walking aimlessly around. Why is it always so busy? This frustrates every Loughborough student. Once you finally find a seat on the very bottom floor in a corner you\u2019ll open your laptop, start doing some work and then eventually find yourself in the deepest depths of Facebook – probably watching videos and tagging people in memes. So much time has passed you need to sprint to your lecture to avoid getting glared at by the lecturer as you walk in late.<\/p>\n
Once you get back to your room you immediately get back in bed and put Netflix on. Then you think about how exhausted you are; you definitely have earned a nap. A couple hours later you\u2019re woken up by your flatmates getting back and talking annoyingly loud. They\u2019ll then come and harass you and you all decide it\u2019s time for some dinner.<\/p>\n
Everyone knows the main aim of pres is to get yourself as drunk as possible so you don\u2019t have to spend much money later on. You decide to copy them and also get yourself some meat (gains) to add to your dinner. After getting back and destroying about two bowls worth of pasta you need to get ready for the night. A quick shower, putting on your best clothes but worst shoes (because they\u2019ll get destroyed) and sorting your general appearance (so you no longer look like a fitness enthusiast), the night can begin.<\/p>\n
This is said every week by every Loughborough student and it\u2019s more than true. FND is the biggest night at the Union. At your training squads pres you\u2019ll play countless drinking games, starting with a classic game of \u2018higher or lower\u2019 and eventually leading to \u2018ring of fire\u2019. You\u2019ll be so drunk eventually that you will no longer be able to play anymore games \u2013 standard stuff.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s worth it. You talk to all the strangers around you, everyone is rowdy and the bouncers look far from pleased. After showing your student card and platinum sticker you\u2019ll stagger in and immediately know that you need to go to the toilet, you were in that queue for a while. Your next immediate thought is to go to the bar, you need another drink. So you\u2019ll buy yourself a few cheeky VK\u2019s \u2013 probably 3 \u2013which are an absolute bargain!<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll go from Room 1 and almost pass out from suffocation then move upstairs to Fusion where you\u2019ll enjoy the cheesy tunes they play whilst you cut some shapes on the dance floor. You\u2019ll maybe go outside Cogs but not go in due to the fear of being judged. So back into Room 1 you go and suddenly the lights come on and it\u2019s 4am. Where did the time go?<\/p>\n
This is an essential part of the post-night out for a Loughborough student. Cheesy chips, chicken nuggets, pizza you\u2019ll buy it all because you\u2019re ravenous. You\u2019ll juggle it all back to your room, get in bed and sit there and shovel it down you. You\u2019ll be so content with life. Nothing will be better than this moment. But deep down you know a death-like hang over is waiting for you in the morning and you will not be able to shake it off. As you go to Loughborough though, you\u2019ll man up and head into town the next night for a Saturday night sesh in Echos.<\/p>\n
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Every university has its own unique quirks that add to the daily lives of their students. Loughborough is no exception. From the cat at Pilks, to the que at the Union. Keep reading to find out what a typical day in the life of a Loughborough student is like! The sound of your 6.00am alarm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19696,"featured_media":94532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1793],"tags":[7995,7992],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-94519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uni-life","tag-lboro-everything-else","tag-lboro-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n