Graduation and final thoughts on doing a research-based degree
On Wednesday I joined many others in the sunshine to finally graduate, and I’m happy to say I did so with both a first and the graduate of the year award for Natural Sciences. The ceremony itself was bizarre, with a mixture of superfluous rituals and attire, several hours of oscillating applause, and some […]
Module development in the heat
For the last two weeks myself and another natural sciences student (although I guess I’m about to be a graduate!) have been caught between the airflow of two overworked fans as we struggle to keep the physics lab at a bearable temperature. Over the course of July we’ve been tasked with designing modules for […]
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 […]
The I-Science Society Formal Dinner
On Friday the Interdisciplinary Science Society hosted their final social event of the year, bringing all years of the degree (and staff!) together for a formal dinner at the Belmont hotel. It was a great way to round off the last term, and a nice break from thinking about the final deadlines now just days […]
Finishing the fourth-year project
Central to the final year of the integrated masters is the fourth-year project, taking up half of all allocated module time and culminating in a project report (which I gave some advice on writing here). After months of working in the laser lab, running hundreds of simulations, and 24,600 words I’m pleased to say last […]
Convergence failures and hidden electronic states: the world of computational chemistry
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 […]
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 4
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science, or JIST, is a journal run by third year natural sciences students both at the University of Leicester and their counterparts in the ISci programme at McMaster University in Canada. Taking place in the second term, students submit short articles and engage in a review process analogous to a scientific […]
Rounding off the end of term and the Natural Sciences Newsletter
As 5pm came around students from all years of the degree gathered at the nearest pub in the tradition of celebrating the end of second term exams, and although fourth years are no longer subjected to such things it was still apt as a send off for Easter! The week also saw the end of […]
Presentations and the Solar Eclipse
On Friday morning my lab group and I took a short break from the noise and heat of the basement laser lab to take advantage of the clear day and watch the solar eclipse. The physics department had a live feed of the event, showing enough detail on the sun that you could see sunspots, […]
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