Posted by Osarenkhoe in Natural Sciences on June 30, 2016
Attach the pdf*, click the “Send” button, check the “Sent box” to make sure it actually left your email and boom! It’s finally done**. I have completed the last of my coursework on the Natural Science course. I almost don’t believe it, I feel like come this September I’m gonna have to write another essay […]
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Posted by Osarenkhoe in Natural Sciences on March 31, 2016
After several months in the lab it’s finally time to start writing up my research project. In the third year I was required to do a research project and this acted as great preparation for my fourth year project. The most valuable lesson I learnt was to treat my write-up as part of my research. […]
Posted in Dissertation, Reseach, Stress, Studying | Tagged project
Posted by Osarenkhoe in Natural Sciences on March 25, 2016
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 […]
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Posted by David in Natural Sciences on June 25, 2015
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 […]
Posted in Future, Stress | Tagged I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, microcontrollers, Moving house, natsci, Natural Sciences, open days
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on March 8, 2015
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 […]
Posted in Dissertation, Stress, Studying | Tagged advanced study topic, bose-einstein condensation, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, project, student blog, superfluid helium |
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on December 27, 2014
Despite being part of an integrated masters, so far the fourth year on the natural sciences course has been considerably different from the last three. One of the most striking changes is the reduction in contact hours. This isn’t exactly a bad thing, as most projects demand a lot of attention, leading to (in my […]
Posted in Stress, Studying | Tagged fourth year, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, masters year, natsci, Natural Sciences, student blog, Studying, timekeeping
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on December 1, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Dissertation, Lab, Stress | Tagged Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, lab, microcontrollers, natsci, Natural Sciences, next term, project, student blog
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on April 14, 2014
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. […]
Posted in Dissertation, Societies, Stress | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, Easter, inaugural Employability Symposium, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, project, stress, student blog, thesis, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on February 5, 2014
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 […]
Posted in Career, Dissertation, Employment, Future, Stress | Tagged centre of interdisciplinary science, guitar, interdisciplinary sciences, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, stress, student blog, University of Leicester
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