It was a big draw for me. In my first week, I was able to meet people with the same hobby and by my third year I was the society president.
It involves equally spaced cones and you have a set amount of time to do your most impressive routine around them. At the other end of the skating spectrum, I also do speed skating. The first was the Berlin skate marathon, which is exactly as it sounds β a marathon but on inline skates that happens two days after the Berlin Marathon.
The other one was in Le Mans. It was a fantastic experience. We were very proud of ourselves! Inline skating is actually one of the two reasons I chose Imperial. The Outreach science labs, a STEM potential programme that introduces schoolchildren to the idea of attending university, was the other. I was encouraged to take part in it when I was at school, and it changed my life for the better.
I wanted to do the same for other kids like me, so now I volunteer with the Outreach labs. One of my favourite experiments is when I make a superconductor levitate above a magnet. There are always oohs and aahs. Just as I was when I was in their shoes.
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