Whether you\u2019re a first year or a postgrad, it is undeniable that Loughborough University is one of the most awesome universities in the country. After being here for some time you will have noticed some things very typical to Loughborough. Keep reading for 20 signs you go to Loughborough University!<\/p>\n
Sport is one of the many things we are good at here at Loughborough and many of us have training to make on a regular basis. So it\u2019s easier to go round to lectures ready in your kit. Plus, sports clothes are super comfy!<\/p>\n
Loughborough is the home to many of GB\u2019s training bases so naturally the famous athletes can be spotted walking round campus going to the union or PowerBase. But it\u2019s the norm, you\u2019ll most likely see them a few times a week so obviously you don\u2019t get as excited anymore. You also know not to ask them for their autograph too avoid looking far too keen!<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re in an AU team you will have bought one of the hoodies to show everyone that you do sport at AU level so you must the real deal! This is the ultimate way to show this to everyone round campus. You may have also bought one of the Loughborough University hoodies from the Union most likely in grey or navy for a more casual look. Everyone knows these are ridiculously comfy! By the way, if you have the \u2018Loughborough Sport\u2019 hoodie that disguises itself as an AU hoodie you will get judged.<\/p>\n
For some reason here in Loughborough whenever you step outside it\u2019s always so windy! We basically have our own microclimate. Girl\u2019s you may as well forever keep your hair tied back because otherwise it\u2019ll be flying all over the place. You\u2019ll know that the windiest place on campus is there road leading past the PO and Whitworth down to the West Park.<\/p>\n
We are better at sport than them and they just can\u2019t accept that. But it\u2019s all put to the test on the famous D-Day when we compete against them in multiple sports. Majority of the time we will come out on top but we still don\u2019t like them. So what if they\u2019re higher in the league tables than us? We walk on water!<\/p>\n
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The ratio between guys and girls can be a blessing or a curse. We all know there are way more guys here than girls which can work in favour if you\u2019re a single girl. But for us girls, often stepping into a room where there it literally all guys and one or two girls can sometimes be very daunting. For the guys though, this ratio means there is lots of competition so you\u2019ll have to head to the gym to get some gains to impress the few girls that are here.<\/p>\n
Nights out can sometimes be a little expensive but as a Loughborough student you know that you\u2019ll always been able to afford a cheeky VK. And if you\u2019re lucky you\u2019ll remember that in the Union they sell three for a fiver or sometimes \u00a34.50! On a night out you will mainly drink these and they\u2019ll keep you lovely and drunk.<\/p>\n
Owning a pair of these shoes Saturdays can get quite boring and if you\u2019re not hanging too much from FND you\u2019ll make the trip to echos for the night. It\u2019s was of the grimiest clubs in town but it\u2019s also one of the best. You\u2019ll always have to make sure you wear your echos shoes because the floor is so vile in there and nice shoes will just get destroyed.<\/p>\n
As you do sport you\u2019ll need to get them gains all the time. So when you aren\u2019t destroying your session in the gym you\u2019ll be sipping on protein shakes for extra gains. Gains are important.<\/p>\n
You had to choose between either PowerBase, Holywell or one in town. You didn\u2019t need to decide if you were going to join a gym you just had to work out which one was right for you. It was most likely Base wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll only like Towers if you live there. Otherwise for the rest of us we will continually feel sorry for you for multiple reasons. Like if there\u2019s a fire you\u2019re all screwed or because the whole building just looks like a prison. The only good thing about it is that they get catered food 7 days a week but even that\u2019s pretty rubbish.<\/p>\n
Being a sports uni, we all just assume that everyone does sport. But of course that\u2019s not the case. So after you have just told someone that you train 10+ times a week and compete a national standard and finally ask them what sport they do they\u2019ll tell you that they don\u2019t do anything. So awkward right?! So you just kind of stand there unsure of how to handle the situation so you just say \u201cOh cool\u201d.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re probably guilty for doing this let\u2019s not lie. You can barely walk your legs are in that much pain. You can\u2019t even walk up the \u2018hill\u2019 from Pilks, you just can\u2019t. So obviously you\u2019re only option is the bus.<\/p>\n
Most of us have lived in halls in our first year or are currently in halls now. If you\u2019re lucky enough you will have a cleaner that will come in either every week or other to clean your room. It sounded like a good thing at first right? Wrong. They always seem to want to come in on the days you have the morning off and it\u2019s around 9am! So naturally you just hate these people. It\u2019s harsh and they are doing you a solid but they ruin well needed sleep.<\/p>\n
The Loughborough locals are an odd bunch. Some of them absolutely detest us students where as some of them love us but most of the time they hate us. As we basically take over their town for nine months each year I suppose it makes sense but you won\u2019t be able to decide if you hate them back or if you just have no feelings what so over for them.<\/p>\n
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The amount of people that have just assumed you study this is unreal. You go to Loughborough the best sports uni in the country but there is more than just sports and exercise science! We are brilliant at engineering as well but nope they still assume you study sport.<\/p>\n
Cheeky Nando\u2019s are the best aren\u2019t they? The new Nando\u2019s in town only opened up this year and it was a blessing so no doubt you\u2019ll have already been down there several times with your squad to get some spicy chicken in your life.<\/p>\n
Oh my god, the pain that is market day. You just want to go into town to get some food or go to Primark and the market is on. So this means you\u2019re surrounded by locals and it takes you about 20 minutes to walk from one end of the market to the other. Like seriously how slow do people want to walk and why do so many people want to even go to market?!<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll be strolling to lectures, the day is lovely, you\u2019re happy then as you\u2019re about to cross the road a cyclist comes speeding past almost crashing into you. Why are there soooo many cyclists round campus? They\u2019re literally everywhere. You\u2019ll almost get hit around 5-8 times a day so watch out.<\/p>\n
All Loughborough students have done this and if you haven\u2019t you need to. It\u2019s considered one of the many rites of passage here so after you next FND trip get swimming but maybe wait till the summer when you won\u2019t die of hypothermia.<\/p>\n
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Whether you\u2019re a first year or a postgrad, it is undeniable that Loughborough University is one of the most awesome universities in the country. After being here for some time you will have noticed some things very typical to Loughborough. Keep reading for 20 signs you go to Loughborough University! 1. You live in sports…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19696,"featured_media":98911,"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-98880","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