Blog posts from students studying Biological Sciences at the University of Leicester. 
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By now most students have left Leicester for the summer and are at home enjoying the freedom that comes with the end of another academic year. But for those of us studying the third year module ‘Conservation Biology’ we had a five days of field based teaching. This took place in locations around Leicestershire […]
This weekend I had my first experience of an escape room and I loved it!! Four of us went to Escape Reality Leicester and we chose to do the Jungala room. This scenario is based on the film Jumanji; basically you play an old board game which transports you into a dangerous jungle that you […]
After the end of the summer exam period second year bio students have three days of dissertation prep. The short course is designed to help you start thinking about planning your dissertation. The first day was today and we had three sessions. The first was a introduction to the course and information about avoiding plagiarism […]
My final exam was last Saturday morning and pretty much straight after I headed up to Carlisle with some friends to my housemates home! It was a weekend filled with walking, good food and the occasional drink! We had a really good time and it was so much fun to be out in the […]
Hello, I’ve been a bit quiet recently because I have been living in the library revising and have very few interesting things to talk about. BUT now exams are done so this is a quick post to catch you up with what the last few weeks since my field trip have been like! I’ve pretty […]
The Wednesday was Earth Day 2018! So what is Earth Day all about? In it’s own words Earth Day is ‘It is a day of political action and civic participation’, and the aim is to take action to increase awareness of the things we can all do to be more environmentally friendly and to put […]
During our field trip we had to complete a group research project. We worked in groups of three and our group was assigned the topic of cyanogenesis in legumes and mollusc herbivory. Basically some plants produce two compounds which are keep separately in the leaves but when the leaves are damaged (due to chewing) the […]
On the Sunday I landed back in Birmingham airport after a week and a half in Mallorca on a field trip. The field trip formed the majority of teaching for the ‘A Field Guide to Evolution’ module and I can honestly say it has one of the best things I have done at uni so […]
That’s it, it’s the end of the second term (well almost, I still have the field trip which starts on Wednesday) and the start of the Easter holidays! I thought I might take this chance to reflect on what I have been up to over the last few months! This term started with […]
This year I was part of the Equestrian Varsity team riding against DMU. Varsity is the biggest sporting event of year for the students at University of Leicester and it’s incredibly exciting to take part. All the competitors will train hard for the weeks before their fixture and each win accumulates points for the university! […]
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