Loughborough is well regarded for its sporting prowess, but there is far more than just sport at Loughborough. There plenty of high-quality societies and I play trumpet in the university jazz group, Tuxedo Swing.

Engineering is an unexpectedly unique field of study and everyone learns the content in different ways. If you don’t understand the lecture, that’s fine, but do something about it! Textbooks, classmates, even online animations can sometimes give the push you need. Perhaps the most inspiring aspect of Loughborough are the graduates, who come back ever successful and enthusiastic about their careers. You can tell their time at Loughborough was enjoyed and they are making great use of it in their careers. I hope to be doing the same soon.

The opportunity to have a placement year was one of the most exciting opportunities I've had at Loughborough so far. It allowed me to gain real hands-on experience with what being a chemical engineer is like and really reinforced that it is a job I would like to do in the future. I spent a year working as an undergraduate Process Engineer at Valero’s Pembroke Oil Refinery, one of the largest refineries in Western Europe. The refinery interviews at only a select number of universities for placement students with Loughborough being one. On placement I worked alongside graduate engineers in a range of different disciplines which gave invaluable experience which will definitely help in my final year design projects.