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15 Reasons You Know You're A Bristol University Student

15 Reasons You Know You're A Bristol Student
Isobel Cockerell

In the far-flung reaches of the West Country, Bristol students have the best of all worlds.

(Almost) Oxbridge-worthy intelligence meets the thumping, heavy baselines of the North. It is, in the words of the High Renaissance Man, one long drug-fuelled after-party on a punt. Without the punt. But there are still some daily struggles which make living and studying here a, shall we say, ‘unique’ experience. Welcome to Bristol...

15 Ways You Know You're a Bristol Student
All of your friends are, like, really posh.(01 of15)
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There's money, darling (credit:getty)
Their idea of 'budgeting' is eating a brace of partridge that they've shot themselves.(02 of15)
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Those are pheasants, for when times are really tough (credit:Getty )
They can't fathom the concept of student loans, or what all the fuss is about.(03 of15)
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"Wait, so you don't get an allowance from Daddy every month?" (credit:giphy.com)
If a day goes by without it raining at least once, you feel all…unusual.(04 of15)
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When you arrive, semi-paralytic, half blind at Pam Pam/Lounge/Whichever dog-hole you've decided to patronize for the evening, you realise, with sinking certainty, that you have definitely, categorically, not had enough to drink.(05 of15)
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You have on more than one occasion considered suing the ASS for daylight robbery...(06 of15)
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Vitamin D deficiency is a serious concern (credit:giphy.com)
Deciding where to go for lunch is an exhausting daily trial. How about Pret? Expensive. Gusto? Fine, if you're a huge rugby lad. The Red Tent then? But the QUEUE! Or a nice packed lunch? Except it won't be nice. (07 of15)
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Tupperware's not cool (credit:Getty)
You have never gone further afield than Stokes Croft.(08 of15)
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Even the idea of the UWE campus fills you with an irrational dread. (09 of15)
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Although you seriously think the University should reimburse you for the amount of money you spend on going to London. (10 of15)
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Unless you're Northern, in which case you're stuck here. (credit:Press Association)
You're deeply paranoid that you've given yourself a chronic hearing problem from one too many dub sessions at Trinity(11 of15)
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Teachings in Tinnitus (credit:giphy.com)
But despite all the rain...(12 of15)
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"If you can't see the hills, it's raining. If you can see the hills....it's going to rain." (credit:giphy.com)
...and the braying rahs...(13 of15)
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...and the serious decline in your mental and physical wellbeing…(14 of15)
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...You know in your heart of hearts that life at Bristol suits you down to the ground.(15 of15)
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Admit it, we're living the West Country Dream (credit:Getty)
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