Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on May 29, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Dissertation | Tagged dissertation, Final year, Study
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on March 30, 2018
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 […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Committee, dissertation, Easter, End of term, Equestrian and Polo, field trip, gym, Internship, Lab Placement, Lets Do Leicester, Module choices, Revision, Sport, Term 2
Posted by Beth in Biological Sciences on February 28, 2018
At this time of year all second year students with in the biological and medical sciences degree streams here at the University of Leicester, have to decide what they want to do for their projects. These projects make up 40 credits of our degree (basically the equivalent of two modules) and the third year marks […]
Posted in Dissertation | Tagged Course Choices, dissertation, Final year, Study, Third year project
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on April 16, 2017
Happy Easter everybody! I hope you are all having fun eating lots of chocolate. If you’re like me and chose the sad option of continuing revision through this holiday weekend, make sure you have lots of nice food today, okay? So today I decided that I would create another one of my beloved […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Biological Sciences, dissertation, Easter, Exams, Final year, first year, graduation, Revision
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on March 29, 2017
So, this post was definitely not written to trigger fear. It was mainly inspired by the fact that my brain is rarely occupied by anything else nowadays! As a final year student, my last year at university is characterised by my third year project which is comprised of a dissertation on my topic of […]
Posted in Dissertation | Tagged dissertation, Final year, Organising, Planning, studying, Tips
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on March 18, 2017
So here we are again, at the end of another semester. There’s only another week of teaching left before Easter, and then it’s basically revision time for a lot of Leicester students! Instead of lamenting on passing time, I decided to dedicate this post to the things in my life – and in this […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged dissertation, Easter, Family, Food, Leisure, Motivation, studying
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on March 12, 2017
So, another week bites the dust and it seems to only get busier for us Leicester students! Fortunately, barring my dissertation, all of my deadlines are officially completed. It is strange to think that my degree is becoming a series of lasts – last essay, last lab report, last lecture with so-and-so. This is […]
Posted in Leisure | Tagged dissertation, Easter, lectures, Oadby, studying, Varsity
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on October 30, 2016
It’s almost November and I can’t believe how quickly time is flying. Having a dissertation on the side means that I’ve been strangely lacking the deadlines that tend to characterise my Halloween weekend. Today, I’m going to dedicate this post to a spooky activity that all Bioscience students eventually relate to once they’re in their final […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged dissertation, Essay, Final year, halloween, Literature, Papers, Scientific reading, studying
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on October 17, 2016
Inspired by the regular visits I’ve been paying to the Library due to my copious amounts of dissertation reading, I am going to dedicate today’s blog to the hub of every university. David Wilson Library. Image taken from Wikipedia. Isn’t it just the prettiest? So I’d like to cover the essential things you should […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Biological Sciences, David Wilson, dissertation, Essay, library, Revision, studying, University of Leicester
Posted by Arllen in Biological Sciences on September 16, 2016
Hi everyone! I’m Arllen, a 3rd year Medical Physiology student and the new Biological Sciences blogger for this year. A very warm goodbye to our previous blogger Daisy – we wish you all the best for the future! Now with my final year around the corner, I thought I would start my blog […]
Posted in Studying | Tagged Biological Sciences, dissertation, Diwali Festival, Final year, K-Pop, Leicester, Leicester Comedy Festival, Modules, Shopping, Societies, Theatres, University of Leicester
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