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10 Reasons You Know You’re A Geography Student

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

 

  1. You love maps. You have at least one world map somewhere in your room: on your wall, on a mug, on a notebook… all of the above?!
  1. Everyone asks what you can actually do with your degree. ‘Do you aspire to be a teacher or a weather girl?
  1. You get picked for quiz teams for your capital city knowledge and people think you’re failing your degree if you don’t know the answer.

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  1. You spend your free time on Sporcle / app equivalent.
  1. Friends assume you’ve only got a good grade because you managed to colour inside the lines…
  1. You can’t go to the beach without noticing all the landforms – caves, arches, stacks – and thinking about long shore drift.

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  1. You’re more excited about your fieldtrip than your holiday (it is a holiday really)… Your backpack, clipboard, wellies and waterproof have been ready by the door for days.
  1. You can still reel off all your case studies from GCSE.
  1. You think watching Frozen Planet counts as work.
  1. Adding –isation to any word makes it a technical Geographical term. McDonald-isation. Coca-Cola-isation. Las Vegas-isaton…

 

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Carrie Ashton is a third year Geography student and Deputy Travel Editor for HCX. Having been on a committee each year so far (organising the Exeter Halls Summer Ball and Treasurer for GeogSoc), she is keen to be part of something new - starting the travel section of Her Campus being the ideal opportunity! Having grown up in South Africa and travelled fairly extensively since and in her Gap Year, Carrie has a keen interest in travel. Although she loves lying in the sun with a good book, it is the more adventurous trips that she enjoys - including scuba diving, sailing and reaching the summit of Kilimanjaro last year in aid of Practical Action.