So on Monday after my replacement double lesson of CHEMISTRY, went home, got ready and flew off to Glasgow! :) The flight was absolutely unpleasant. Turbulence almost all the way and when it was stable, I was asleep. Yea I know right, on an 1 hour flight -_- I admit I took a few days off too many for just a 20 minute interview for University of Glasgow :/ But hey, I wanted to explore the city a bit :) (which I ended up not doing)
Landed in Glasgow, welcomed by the rain and wind. AS USUAL. It seems like it's becoming a generic opening phrase for all my trips -_- I hope Edinburgh would be different. Went to Chai's place, ordered a Chinese takeaway and watched the very first episode of Sherlock because the weather is too crap to go anywhere else. Sherlock was exceptionally good but, NO. CANNOT. MUST. RESTRAIN.
Next morning! Went to Tesco to get food and take the chance to walk around a small part of Glasgow :)
view from Chai's room
Pretty cool bridge
Over the pretty quiet river
Giving me quite a "Twilight" feel
After this my fingers got too numb to use my phone :/ But yea, went to Tesco and back, and didn't like the streets one bit :/ The pavement was dirty and filled with pot-holes, kinda like the Scottish Croydon. Buildings were dirty too and it just gave me a very dodgy feel :/ THANKFULLY! After speaking to a lot of Glaswegians, that was the more "dodgy" side of Glasgow, the ghetto of Glasgow if you like, not the whole of Glasgow is like that *sigh of relief*
Then in the afternoon, Chai went for classes and I went to a hostel to stay a night. Getting there was quite tough, especially when you're new to a city and you're dragging a luggage with you on a pavement full of potholes. Google map was my savior but I never knew some buses only ran once an hour, so I sat there in the numbing cold to what felt like eternity. This is when I started to miss London. Getting around is super convenient and you can get from one end to another easily. I admit : I am a brat when it comes to walking and traveling. Absolutely hate walking long distances in the cold :(
Still in the shady part of Glasgow
My comfy hostel room! (I think there were bed bugs T_T)
After Chai finished his classes, we had dinner at Wetherspoons! I think it's a traveling thing for me now, to always eat at Wetherspoons when I'm in another city :P I don't mind though! Their food is extremely reasonable priced and super delicious :)
Went back to the hostel, STUDY. STUDY. STUDY. Nervousness hasn't kicked in yet.
Next day! Final day in Glasgow and the most anticipated day - the interview. DUM DUM DUM!
Took a cab to the Veterinary campus because there wasn't any convenient buses/trains there. It was either take a train for 3 minutes and walk for another 23 minutes OR walk for 37 minutes.
CAB. NO CONSIDERATION NEEDED.
Reached the campus and it was amazinggggggg! Driving from the guard house to the reception building took about 2 minutes so I can imagine what would happen if I walked all the way here -_- Bumped into a girl from HK that I met at my RVC interview. She had her interview in the morning and said they were super friendly and barely asked her any academic questions so I thought hey! I can do friendly, I can do this.
Okay brief description. University of Glasgow has their main campus, and their Veterinary campus. Which are 4 MILES away from one another. 4 MILES. So the vet campus is quite, distant from the other campuses :/ They're like in their own secluded area, like a mini Olympic village if you like. But don't get me wrong. The place was beautiful. Absolutely breathtaking. Sorry I didn't take pictures, I was too nervous to even think about it.
I'll just walk you through and you'd have to visualise it then. HAHA! As you walk from building to building, you see trees, and even more trees. In the distance you may see a little bit of a hill, and there's a river that flows through the campus itself. like what. whaaaaat! Beautiful. There were tractors and mud everywhere, all the students were wearing wellies or high boots. SUCH A VETTY FEEL ALREADY.
Main reception area, where I had my interview, picture from google.
There was also the James Herriot library, which is named after renowned author and veterinarian Alf Wight (James Herriot is his pseudonym) who graduated from University of Glasgow as well!! ❤_❤ I bought almost all of his published veterinary journals but I didn't get the time to finish all of them yet :( He is a huge inspiration to MANY veterinarians around the world, you wouldn't believe it. AND! He did his degree HERE! Which makes Glasgow's Vet school even more prestigious than it already is
Their very own small animal hospital!
Got a tour of their whole campus basically. Was super super impressed! Most impressive part was the Weipers Equine Hospital, which is a hospital specifically for horses. UGH. It was so amazing. The insides looked like, what you'd get when you combine a high end posh horse stable with the most modern clinical equipment set-up. They even had a surgical theatre, X-ray room, and other state of the art medical scanners and devices. I have NEVER seen anything like this in my life. NEVERRR
Ding ding dong dong, time for the interview. Will not disclose the questions here but you can ask me if you like :) It was quite challenging and very very few personal questions, more ethical and academic. Which wasn't what I was expecting :( But oh well :/
After the interview, went back to the hostel to gather my stuff, ate late lunch/early dinner with Chai and flew back to London.
A bit upset I didn't get to see Glasgow city. But I was very very happy that I got a chance to finally see the vet campus with my own eyes :') Truth is, ever since I decided on the universities I wanted to go to, Glasgow was always my first choice. I would be like a crazy fan girl and Google Earth the campus, street view and all that. Heck, I even downloaded the Uni of Glasgow APP because I wanted to feel like a Glasgow student even if I hadn't even submitted my application yet lol. I was really crazy. A lot of people asked me why didn't I just check out the campus on their open day but I decided, hey, if I get an interview with them, THEN I'd go see the campus.
The interview was really a dream come true. (even though it didn't go as well as I hoped ) Thinking about it now, this time last year, I was so so worried I wouldn't even get a reply from any of the vet schools, even getting an interview with any of the vet schools would be a huge HUGE achievement for me. And few days ago, I was at my dream school, my first choice university. Words could not even begin to describe how happy I was :) I am already so so grateful to have gotten so far in my veterinary application.
Glasgow, please love me, please.
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