Open Days and Neural Networks
Throughout July the department once again opened its doors to prospective students, offering taster lectures, talks on how the natural sciences course is designed, and displaying a host of material made by undergraduates over the years. As well as the seemingly endless biscuits, it’s always great to hear the aspirations of A-level students, and from a potential […]
Graduation Day (for some)
Today was graduation for natural sciences students, and despite having one more year to go several of us undergraduates went along to the reception to say goodbye. I was also lucky enough to receive the third year prize for best project, so there were handshakes to be had for that! It was a really great […]
Headstart Summer School 2014
Today marks the end of this year’s Headstart Summer School, where A-Level students descend on the university to get a feel of what it’s like to be a natural sciences or physics student here. As one of the volunteers, I’ve spent the last week building rockets, studying meteorites, identifying bacterial DNA strands and much much […]
Handing over the IScience Society to the Next Committee
With all work handed in and every exam finished, there was still the last bits of paper work to do in handing over the Interdisciplinary Science Society to the new committee. Student-run societies at Leicester are rated by the students’ union annually to be either unrated, bronze, silver or gold, the result of which depends […]
Reflections on Third Year
My third year ended with a final exam in Palaeoclimate and Climate Modelling, followed by the first joint I-Science (natural sciences) and Physics ball. Forgoing the cliché of saying every year seems to go by more quickly, this year really did feel like a large jump in training for a career as a scientist. I […]
The Inaugural Employability Symposium
As promised, here’s some photos from The Inaugural Employability Symposium hosted by the Interdisciplinary Science Society. This event was months in the making, working in collaboration with both the Career Development Service and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, and fortunately it turned out to be a success! We had speakers from the geosciences company CGG, […]
Climate Modelling, the Anthropocene and N-Body Simulations
With the end of term now just weeks away, my days are currently filled with climate proxies, programming, and thinking of every question that could possibly come up for my project viva now just days away… Unlike a lot of courses, natural sciences has core modules running in all three terms, which, for my year, […]
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. […]
Science Youtube channels, blogs, podcasts and more
With this being a blog about the experiences of a science undergraduate, I thought I’d post some of my favourite resources related to science that I find myself visiting. Many of these inspired and continue to inspire me to pursue science, and I hope they do the same for you. Periodic Videos/Sixty Symbols/Deep Sky Videos/Numberphile […]
The final project seminar and the viability of holding The Winter Olympics on Enceladus
With the final project seminar drawing to a close, the panic for the approaching final deadline was mediated only with thoughts of this Friday’s exams, making this week pretty hectic in terms of collecting final sets of data while revising the past few months of material! On the Natural Sciences degree, your project is assessed […]
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