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You Know You’re A Bristol Student When…

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Bristol chapter.

1)      You get funny looks from passers-by when you start talking about the ASS.

2)      You’ve eaten your weight in Jason Donervan’s.

3)      You’ve never actually made it to the Student Union.

4)      You’ve attempted the Cori Tap Challenge.

5)      You bump into everyone you know at Bunker Mondays.

6)      You feel smug when you see strangers struggling along in their heels at the end of the night, while you’re in your converse/nikes.

7)      You’ve never seen such a high concentration of hipsters along one stretch of road.

8)      You feel like a boss when you get to the top of St Michael’s Hill.

9)      Trying to get a seat at lunchtime in the Refectory is a hopeless task.

10)   You feel a little bit like you’ve stepped onto the set of Harry Potter every time you go into the Wills Memorial Building.

11)   You know several amateur DJs.

12)   You have to re-plan your route to uni every day because of the construction works.

13)   You’ve never been anywhere with so much rain!

14)   When the sun finally comes out, you can find the entire student population at one of three places: drinking on the steps of Browns, enjoying the views at the White Lion, or BBQing on the Downs.

15)   At one point your cover photo was of the Suspension Bridge.

16)   You’re mates with Jeff, the Big Issue Seller and Walter, the Lounge Cloak Room Attendant

17)   You’ve attended the CU Freshers BBQs and snuck off before they tried to convert you.

18)   You haven’t once heard the Bristol accent because everyone you know is from London.

19)   You dread receiving your exam timetable – not because of the revision reminder, but because the venues you’ve been allocated are going to require an hour-long trek, a taxi, a coach, or even a train ride if you’re in the Passenger Shed.

20)   Trying to explain to a friend the appeal of Lounge is an impossible task.

Camilla is a third year French student at Bristol. She co-founded and was editor of Her Campus Bristol last year. She has lived in Ghana, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, the US and Belgium, and having spent this summer working at Walt Disney World, Florida, she is now excited to be embarking on a year abroad working as a language assistant at HEC Paris. She loves sushi, fireworks and old films.