
Catch up with my travels (Part 2)…
Last weekend I went for a girls weekend away to Seville with some of my friends that I have met whilst at uni. We had a great weekend, filled with lots of cocktails, wine, cheese and other good food! Seville is a beautiful city, every street had a gorgeous old European vibe and we visited […]

Catch up with my travels (Part 1)…
As you know a week after my last exam I left Leicester for a few weeks of travelling and sunshine! We flew out to Bangkok for the start of a couple of weeks exploring Thailand! The first night we stayed in Bangkok in an amazing hotel which was very snazzy as a celebration of me […]
Not long until CHRISTMAS…
So it’s not long been bonfire night and for me that signals the start of the festive period, which is without a doubt my favourite time of year! To make it even better this year I don’t have January exams, so although I will have uni work to be keep on top of (that dissertation […]

A Visit to Kew Gardens
This weekend to celebrate the end of my summer placement me and my family headed down to London for the weekend to visit Kew Gardens. We stayed in an Airbnb just North-East of the Chilterns, near Dunstable. It was a lovely apartment out in the countryside (quite near to Ashridge Estate which we visited on […]

Italy – Part 1:
I’ve spent the last two weeks travelling and enjoying the Italian sunshine. As I do with a lot of my posts that are longer ones I’m going to do this in two parts, just to make it easier to read! I went with a group of girls that I met at uni this year; they […]

Happy New Year!!
This is just a quick post (because I’m currently using all my writing time for revision) to wish you all a very happy new year! New Year’s Eve is always an exciting night! It may just be a date but it feels as though you get a fresh start, you get to make plans for […]

Gatsby Plant Science Summer School
Throughout your first year at university you will be told over and over to make the most of your incredibly long summer holidays. For Biological Sciences students there are loads of options from travel scholarships to summer jobs and internships. It seems a bit full on in your first year to be thinking about all […]

How to prepare for University (and have an awesome summer before you go)
It’s still August (just), the sun is shining (I wish) and the wait is over. You have your results and hopefully have a place at a University and you’re looking forward to starting! You might be reading this and thinking “Yesss I can’t wait to go!” which is great, but some of you will be […]
Keep Your Head Up
Opting to take a long, generally social-media free recovery period after my last exam, I am feeling far more refreshed and ready to reflect about my entire university experience. I don’t think it will hit me that it is over until I am strapped into that graduation gown. Yesterday my friends and I passed […]
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