Everyone’s university has a range of unique characters that you’ll inevitably meet if you just spend enough time hanging around there for more than five minutes. These are the 10 people you’ll always run into at Exeter.
If there’s one thing that you’ll get used to the site of in Exeter, it’s active wear. Whether it’s rugby lads travelling around in packs proudly sporting their jerseys. or hockry girls who seem to be permanently in shorts and covered in mud. Either way, they are all super fit, and somehow not put off by the fact that the student sports center is at the top of a massive hill.
Have you read their screenplay/checked out their article/listened to their radio show? No? Well you totally should! Those in student media rarely leave the respective media office, and can be seen stressing over the several projects that they have going on that are somehow interfering with the rest of their work. If you’re their friend, there’s a good chance you’ve been roped into something somehow, whether that’s helping film something, giving a statement or giving an article a quick once-over.
You can easily spot the rich kid by the amount of designer gear they’ve got on, and how vehemently they’ll deny that they’re actually rich. Be prepared to listen to them tell you that they’re not that loaded, their dad just works really hard, and it’s their parents money anyway so it’s not like it’s even theirs! Drown this out whilst they ‘treat themselves’ to a shopping spree for the third time this week whilst you try and decide whether or not you really need to go grocery shopping.
If you spend any time at all in Exeter, you’ll quickly pick up on the fact that some people are a little enthusiastic about the university they’ve gone to. Easily spotted by the amount of Exeter University merch they’ve got (hoodie, t-shirt, commemorative flagon) and the amount of times they’ll yell ‘bleed green’ whilst drunk and post #bleedgreen on their Instagram.
You may not even notice the student who is involved in student politics…until SABB elections roll around. Then, suddenly, they are rushing around, handing out flyers, tweeting constantly about the upcoming elections and reminding others to do the same. If you haven’t thought about voting yet, they’re sure to explain to you exactly why you should, in great detail.
Easily spotted by the fact they look like they’ve just stepped off a runway, international students are a cut above the rest. Calm, cool and collected, they breeze through the university halls without a care in the world. Amazing wardrobe? Check. Super focused? Check. Top marks in every test, essay or assignment? Check. Are they superhuman? No one knows, but they sure seem to be.
You may think that horse girls could be easily lumped in with rich kids, but this is not the case. Horse/country girls can be spotted in jodhpurs, gillets and old t-shirts. They wouldn’t look out of place in a field or on a bracing country walk, and can often be found talking about how much they love the countryside and/or horses, accompanied by sighs as they reminisce about rolling fields. These are some of the people you’ll always run into at Exeter.
This person is a complete overachiever, but that’s because you literally never see them except for when they’re either rushing around campus to their next lecture, or they’re sat in the library. Surviving mostly off coffee and sheer willpower, whilst they may look distracted when you bump into them, you just know they’re working on something that’s going to get them top marks.
You’ll be able to spot them easily by the the clothes they’re wearing – they’re nicknamed ‘gap year pants’ for a reason. Even if they’re not in this getup, ypu’ll know they went on a gap year because they’ll tell you all about it and how it totally changed them withing five minutes of you meeting them. These are the people you’ll always run into at Exeter.
Their favourite band is someone you’ve never heard of, they only ever take Polaroids and whilst they wear at least 5 layers at all times, they still somehow look effortlessly cool. Their hair is always effortlessly tousled, they usually have at least one piercing and a tattoo that is obscure yet totally cool.
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