Loughborough sold itself to me through its amazing campus, endless sporting opportunities and the outstanding levels of student satisfaction. I wanted a uni that was close to home but also felt like home, and Loughborough did just that for me. I love how you can go into a lecture with one view and come out with a thousand others. Every lecture is different and forces you to see things from several perspectives, allowing us as students to understand both the world around us and ourselves in a different light.
During my first year, COVID-19 had an obvious impact on the way the course was taught. However, the departments excellently devised online teaching programme meant that learning was still delivered to its best standard despite the difficult circumstances. I am looking forward to exploring the facilities more in my coming years now that I can do so safely, as I know many precautions have been taken to make students feel as safe as possible when going back to normal post-covid.
My favourite module that I have done so far was called ‘Conceptions of Democracy’. When I first saw this on my timetable, I was intrigued to find out what it would entail. I found out that it explored the routes of modern democracy and the foundations on which the concept of democracy lies, which did scare me a bit as I had never studied anything like this before! However, as the module went on, I found it really interesting researching and critiquing democracies like Athens and comparing them to what constitutes democracy today.