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Last week I started a paid internship in teaching physics at my old college, Loreto in Manchester. There are about 15 of us on the scheme with Teach Manchester, all of us interested in teaching either physics or maths. The main aim of the scheme is to get more physics and maths graduates into teaching […]
Being on a Committee
Since I enjoyed my year of lessons at Pole Fitness & Dance Society so much, I decided that I’d like to try for a committee role. Every society at university has a student committee who run the society and aim to improve it over the academic year. The main roles are usually president: head of […]
Revision/Assignments/Life Balance
The Easter break just started and of course I’m ill, that seems to be the way things always go. We have 4-5 weeks away from lectures which sounds like a ridiculous amount of time to fill but it really goes by fast! I need to complete optional module assignments, core term tests and part of […]
What are Tutorials Anyway?
Hello all, we’re nearly at the end of term 2 and nearly finished lectures for this year! I thought I would talk about tutorials today because I don’t think I’ve covered them at all so far. Tutorial groups in physics usually have about 5 people in them and meet with the same tutor every week, […]
Food on Campus
There is a decent selection of different places to eat when you’re on campus at Leicester. There’s Delicious which sells a range of sandwiches, wraps, and snacks while Chi next door serves hot food which varies on different days of the week and there’s always a burrito bar. After a morning studying in the library, the […]
Employability as a Physics Graduate
This blog post is quite late for being the first one of the year, I know but even before all of my assessments from over Christmas were handed in, we’ve been thrust straight back into uni work and I’ve been getting used to university hours again. Since it’s my second year at Leicester I’ve been thinking a lot about what […]
2016 Resolutions
This is undoubtedly a cliche topic to write about at the end of the year but I thought I would round off my blog posts for 2015 with my resolutions for 2016. Academically I’ve struggled in the first term of my second year but am very happy about how I persevered and everything turned out alright. My […]
Jovian Planets and Moons
The second optional module that I’ve been studying this past term is Jovian Planets and Moons. I wrote about the other option I was studying in the blog post Fractals and Chaos, so be sure to read that if you’re curious and the post Physics Flavours if you want to know what the other choices […]
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