Making the Most of University Pt.1
Today I’ve been reflecting on my university experience and I can honestly say that deciding to go to university was definitely a great decision. I’ve learnt so much through the Natural Science course but what I didn’t expect was how much learning I’d be doing outside of my course too. The subject you choose […]
Moving house, open days, and microcontrollers
I was lucky enough to stumble across a really nice house with a great landlord in my first year (after being in halls in my foundation year), resulting in me staying in the same place for my entire degree. This has made it all the more nostalgic (and arduous) now that it’s time to move […]
Looming deadlines
There’s now just three weeks left of term and everyone’s pushing to get the results they need to write up their project reports. Those in third year are in dedicated project time, and both years are now split into groups of similar topics to present their work each week in project seminars. These are great […]
Preparing for Next Term
As the end of term is fast approaching, I’ve been spending every available moment in the lab trying to finalise things before Christmas. Due to the nature of my project, the equipment we’re using takes a considerable amount of time to optimise for what we’re trying to achieve, and this isn’t always easy! However, now […]
Trying to find the end of your project report and planning the Inaugural Employability Symposium
With the exams that marked the end of term fast becoming a distant memory, the mass exodus for Easter has reduced the campus to a refuge for those engrossed in dissertations or revision. I fall into the first camp, now trying to piece together the past 20 weeks of project work into a coherent report. […]
Cell signalling, design competitions and the final submissions to JIST
Last Wednesday the Interdisciplinary Science Society hosted its latest academic seminar, where Jaelle Foot gave a presentation on the techniques used in structural biology, and how she applied them to her research. Here nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), x-ray crystallography, and cryo-electron microscopy were used in her research group in identifying the phosphorylation sites on a […]
The Final Push before Project Work
From speaking with friends who have graduated or are in the masters year, it seems fairly unanimous that this point in the degree brings the most stress. Now engrossed in Maxwell’s equations and the theorems of Claude Shannon that make up the remainder of the current module, a host of deadlines fall at the end […]
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