So I applied for
a load of universities and went to a load of Open Days and
all of the other Open Days I was like falling asleep
while lecturers were talking, but
when it came to Hull it was just... I don’t know, like Ollie said,
I just felt like I belonged here.
So yeah, when I was 16, 17, looking at different
universities, Hull was one of the ones that was on my list,
mainly because my brother's wife went there to study nursing.
So I already knew about Hull.
And to be honest, I did see it as also an opportunity come up and see them as well.
But when I came to the Open Day,
it really did feel, as cringey as it sounds,
it really did feel like I belonged there
in comparison to other universities I went to.
But something else,
I actually was applying for sport rehab and
then I came to an Open Day
and we were given all the talks
from all the different kind of sport courses, met with different lecturers,
and I was really fascinated by the nutrition side, so
I was lucky enough to have a conversation with the nutrition lecturer.
And in that moment I decided, well, I thought I decided that
perhaps nutrition was the route that I want to go down,
what I want to kind of really, really study.
And I went away,
I told my parents and they said, don't make any rash decisions,
kind of give it a few weeks. And I gave it a few weeks,
and I said, I still want to go down the nutrition side, something
I hadn't really considered before coming to Hull.
Best decision I made because it's really the kind of aspect of sport,
health and exercise science that
really fascinates me and yeah, that’s definitely the best decision I made.
Throughout my whole life, I always swam
and it was something that took up my whole life, me swimming all the time.
And when it got to about year 10,
year 11 where we choose our options,
I chose Food Tech, so
it was like going into the nutrition side of things as well.
And I really enjoyed it and really enjoyed
seeing how nutrition affected people's performance and people's bodies in general.
And so I went into PE at A level and we did a bit of nutrition
in that as well, and I just knew that that was the route for me then.
It was the thing I enjoyed the most, and sport, obviously, from swimming.
And so I applied for a load of universities
and went to a load of Open Days and
all of the other Open Days I was like falling asleep
while the lecturers were talking.
But when it came to Hull it was just,
I don’t know, like Ollie said, I just felt like I belonged here.
And it just felt like,
like a little family, almost, a little community.
And I just love my course, it's amazing.
And there's
about like 20 people on the course I think, roughly that. So
the lecturers know us all so personally and
I feel I can go to them about anything.
The thing that I was shocked about when I came, not shocked,
but like I didn't expect was, in school
it was so like... the the teachers would literally
hold your hand they’d help you through everything.
And then coming to university, it was so much more independent and
you just
had to spend a lot of time alone motivating yourself to do the work.
So that was something I had to learn to do.
But it's great that they give you first year to like, sort of learn
to do that and teach yourself to go to the Library.