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Strathclyde has a very strong reputation as a particular kind of university
and slightly different from others, more of a sort of MIT model
than an ancient dream inspires type university.
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It's a very diverse community we've got here, a lot of international students at Strathclyde,
students from all over Scotland and also students obviously
who live nearby who just commute in.
So there's a lot of different students with very different needs.
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Alumni students and staff all recognise this idea of 'The Place of Useful Learning'
and that's something that's been around two hundred years.
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There's something for everyone really in Glasgow in terms of sport, culture, music,
entertainment, there's all sort going on.
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You've got the Gallery of Modern Art just a couple of minutes down the road
from the university, you'll find a lot of students wandering about in there
if they've got a bit of spare time.
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With Edinburgh as well only 50 minutes away you've got you know everything that's
through there so you've got some of the major arts festival
in the world once a year that's kind of on your doorstep and obviously you're quite close
to the centre of political influence in Holyrood.
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The other thing I should have mentioned is that it's easy to get out, you can be in the heart
of Scotland's best countryside within 40 minutes of the centre of Glasgow.
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I bought my first pair of walking boots when I moved to Glasgow.
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I'd always wanted to come to Glasgow I think it's a rite of passage for a lot of people
like me who if you've grown up in a small community, you go to university,
you want to go to the biggest city in the country just because there's
so much going on, it's such a change of scenery.
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In many ways the city and the university are connected,
historically they are I mean Strathclyde's got the strong Engineering background
which very much mirrors the industrial heritage of Glasgow.
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There's a real sort of no nonsense sort of hard work ethic about university, it's sort of backed
up by the sort of Glasgow sense of humour which makes it all the better.
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People here are prepared to listen to new ideas, respect a well rounded argument,
they also like a laugh and I think that makes for a really good place to work.
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A really friendly city first and foremost and a friendly university, a really exciting place,
a real buzz about it, the weather's maybe not so great but again that sense of humour cuts
through it all and makes it alright, yeah a great place, real character and I'm really happy
to have chosen to come and study here.
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I think the city itself I mean you just need to look around
and see that it is a city that's still growing, it's still alive, it's still really vibrant,
just look at the amount of construction projects going around all
over the place gives you a good sense of that.
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I think the university as well factors into that because we've got so many development going
on on-campus, a lot of investment going on in the infrastructure.
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Obviously being right in the heart of the city, there's so many colleges round about as well,
Cathedral Street behind us I can see that in the next five to ten years becoming a real sort
of focus of education in Scotland and that's a really exciting thing
to be a part of at the moment.
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I think you can be expect people to be straightforward and friendly.
I think it's an exciting time to be in Glasgow, we've got the Commonwealth Games coming up
and there's a lot of regeneration going on to the east of the campus but also of course
on the campus itself so there's a chance to be really part of creating a new Glasgow.
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