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 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 September 29, 2014
With the first term now underway it seems as good a time as any to give a summary of the masters year on the four-year natural sciences course, and what I’ll be writing about over the next nine months. Doing a masters in natural sciences consists of four modules running right through all three terms, […]
Posted in Career, Dissertation, Future, Studying | Tagged complex systems, fourth year, fourth year project, fractals and chaos, Interdisciplinary Science, interstellar molecules, ISci, IScience, Leicester, masters project, microcontrollers, natsci, Natural Sciences, numerical methods, polymer dynamics, programming, statistical mechanics, student blog, University of Leicester
Posted by David in Natural Sciences on September 19, 2014
It’s now just weeks away from the start of term, which for me means starting my final year on the MSci course. After a brief holiday away from Leicester I’ve been busying myself with the basics of microcontrollers in preparation for the fourth year programming module. This is something I’ve always wanted to get into, […]
Posted in Dissertation, Studying | Tagged fourth year, fourth year project, Interdisciplinary Science, interstellar molecules, ISci, IScience, Leicester, masters project, microcontrollers, natsci, Natural Sciences, programming, student blog, University of Leicester
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