Posted by David in Natural Sciences on May 8, 2015
With just over a week before 4th year project reports are due in for Natural Sciences, everyone’s quietly busying away attempting to tie everything together. My project has been half computational and half experimental, and although much of my effort is now in writing up I can’t convince myself to stop running simulations to try […]
Posted in Dissertation, Reseach, Studying | Tagged computational chemistry, dissertation, I Science, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, project |
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on October 16, 2013
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 […]
Posted in Dissertation, Friends, Societies, Studying | Tagged academic seminars, Assignments, Chemistry, dissertation, I Science, I-science society, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, IScience, laser tag, Leicester, nat sci, natsci, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, project, research, tetrapod evolution
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on October 1, 2013
Sorry for the short break in blog posts – one of the benefits of doing natural sciences is that they aim to be a paperless course, which includes loaning laptops to students if they require them, but this also means over reliant students are without a computer while they are being updated during the summer […]
Posted in Dissertation, Societies | Tagged dissertation, I-science society, Interdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary Science, Interdisciplinary Science Society, ISci, IScience, Leicester, Natural Science, Natural Sciences, project, research, Societes, student blog |
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on August 8, 2013
In the last week I’ve been trying to manipulate the optical properties of various polymers as part of the project I’m helping with over the summer, along with helping out at the CSI Summer School. In the latter case, a lot of the 3 week course has been integrated into the forensic science module for […]
Posted in Dissertation, Future | Tagged astrobiology, carl sagan, cosmos, csi summer school, dissertation, Interdisciplinary Science, ISci, natsci, Natural Sciences, physical chemistry, project, University of Leicester
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on April 1, 2012
Like many of my fellow students, I am often prone to procrastination. Especially when a deadline starts getting close. For me, it is most commonly the internet that I spend the most time distracting myself with. It is always just so close at hand and there is always something I find that appears to be […]
Posted in Dissertation, Friends, Reseach, Studying | Tagged dissertation, Distractions, Interdisciplinary Science, Leicester, Natural Sciences, project, research, Studying
Posted by Zoe in Natural Sciences on February 29, 2012
Last week marked the official start of my designated ‘project time’. Being in my third year, one of my modules consists of a large piece of individual work that is termed our ‘project’. A while back we were all given a big list of projects that were available and we had to chose our favourite. […]
Posted in Dissertation, Reseach, Studying | Tagged dissertation, project, research
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