This week students from all years of I-science joined together in shooting each other with sometimes-working lasers for the nostalgic pleasure in seeing your assigned game character somewhere on the laser tag score board, and being the third in a series of annual first socials, it may have just been the best one yet. Big plans are also underway for a number of socials with other societies, student-staff meals, a games night, a barcrawl, and fundraising gets started next week along with the first academic seminar of the year.
The I-Science Laser Tag Social
We’re particularly lucky to be starting with Dr Carys Bennett from the geology department, who’ll be talking about one of the most exciting (and multidisciplinary) areas of geology: how tetrapods left the water (essentially one of the most important steps in evolution!). Now I just need to decide what refreshments to get…
After hours of searching for a good image of tetrapods, that was the best I could find..
All this planning with the society has been met with a large increase in coursework as third year projects get underway and prereading and problem sets stack up. As my project is partially theoretical and quite open ended, it’s been difficult in knowing how much time to dedicate in pursuing new avenues or researching different techniques – it never feels like you’ve done enough! Saying that, I felt I made good progress this week in identifying two further areas I could investigate in addition to the project’s main aim, one of which includes firing single metal atoms into drops of helium at temperatures of 0.38K. The spectra from these measurements should help aid any conclusions from theoretical calculations in showing just what exactly is going on inside these nanodroplets, so we’ll see how that goes.
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