As you can imagine, at present life isn’t the most interesting. The highlight of my day is normally packing up my work after a morning at the library and heading to the gym for a change of scenery, before heading back to the library for an afternoon session. My housemates and I wanted to give ourselves a night off every week to socialise with each other and so decided to take it in turns to cook. We’re referring to it as ‘Come dine with me’ but realistically this is a deceiving term as we aren’t scoring each other, just demolishing the food. Dinner is also followed by us watching the latest episode of Marcella, the extremely tense ITV drama. The last two weeks I have enjoyed having a night off cooking, instead being summoned to the dinner table without having to lift a finger. This week however, it is my turn to slave away in the kitchen.
Whilst the menu isn’t finalised I have a few ideas and think I will be making a coconut prawn curry. I haven’t actually tried this recipe out but I have been meaning to for a while so hopefully it goes to plan! It’s taken from Amelia Freer’s ‘Eat. Nourish. Glow.’ book, which I have been dipping into lately. There’s some really great healthy recipes in the book that are easy to make and don’t break the student budget! I’m trying to make time to cook from scratch as much as possible during exams, as it’s so easy to slip into the habit of making quick, unhealthy meals.
Good luck to all of you revising,
Daisy x
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Hi Daisy, i am currently a biological sciences student too and really interested in the Erasmus year. I am considering going down a similar route as you instead of studying but i wanted to ask, did you get to choose the project area you wanted to work in or was it what was available at Heidelberg. So for example if i wanted to do a project in an area of neuroscience/physiology would it be possible?
Hi Najima,
It’s great that you’re looking into the Erasmus year, it’s such a great experience and I really can’t recommend it enough! It’s kind of a bit of both; obviously you need to find a supervisor that offers research in the area you’re interested in, but there are so many available. I’d suggest looking on the university’s website and browsing through the labs that are there. Heidelberg has so many that you’re bound to find one that is relevant to your interests. Here is the link to the University’s IZN research groups (Neuroscience), which is a good place to start- http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/izn/index.html
Other universitys will have the same sort of thing on their websites, so just have a look around.
Once you’ve found a lab that looks like it could be for you, you have to contact them directly yourself (via email/ phone) and see if they would be willing to take you. For more information/ help with this, ask the Erasmus coordinator for biological sciences at the relevant time.
I hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions and good luck!
Daisy