The University of Strathclyde, a fine Glaswegian institution that has educated the people of Glasgow and beyond for over 320 years.
It’s alumni include the great John Logie Baird, inventor of the television, and Andrew Ure, the inspiration behind Frankenstein.
But we wanted to take a look at more recent history of the university and it’s student traditions - some things that every Strathclyde student in the last 30 or so years could recognise.
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5. Fire Drills... all the time
If you lived in student accommodation at any point, you’ll remember the constant fire drills. Good on the uni for being safety conscious, but the alarm always had the habit of coming on when you buried in bed violently hungover. Although as students we oft had the habit of always being violently hungover. | Adobe Stock
6. Waiting forever on the lifts at Livingstone Tower
Anyone who classes in the tower knows what we’re talking about. More often than not one or more of the lifts weren’t working, leading to massive queues of students waiting to get to class. Nightmare. | Wikimapia
7. Getting lost in Royal College
Particularly in the first year or two, it was so easy to get lost in the labyrinthian halls of the Royal College | Foursquare
8. Risking life and limb to cross the road
It would take more than two hands to count the amount of times we nearly got run over on Cathedral Street. It really made you question if it was worth returning that Short Loan library book. | Contributed