I wanted to study something that combined my interest in maths, physics and design. My physics teacher introduced me to engineering and recommended that I take part in the Engineering Education Scheme. I really enjoyed the scheme but when it came to looking at degree courses there were so many, I had no idea where to start!

I sat in a careers lesson and realised that my dream job was to design rollercoasters, so I searched UCAS for design engineering degrees. Loughborough’s Product Design Engineering degree was the first course that came up and it was exactly what I was looking for. I carried on looking for similar courses, but nothing quite compared, especially once I started looking at the universities themselves.