Did good

Results came through last week and I did good :) I am very proud of what I have achieved so far and am preparing to put in a monumental effort next year to follow it through and finish on a high! I am on track for a first class degree and I am not going to take my eyes of the ball now.

Lovely flowers from mamma and daddy to celebrate exam results

Tack :)

welcome to crazy corner

An unusual but effective (and colourful!) revision method

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! My last exam is Monday 23rd and then I have a small practical exercise physiology assessment on thursday the 26th and then it's summer holidays! I have seen off 4 exams: biochemistry (fairly hard), physiology (tricky but enjoyable), health psychology (annoying) and human nutrition (the hardest one). Exercise physiology exam to go and this is where I can enjoy myself, I love ex phys! I have four days to revise hard so that I can do myself proud and finish on a high!

"Henry" peeks out from behind health psychology revision notes

But actually, it's not just about doing myself proud but all the people who carry me through this. Harland is a rock and the poor boy is probably looking forward to having his girlfriend back and leave evil stressed out student behind. I look forward to being able to breathe and have some time to do fun stuff... if I can remember how. I'm also looking forward to a summer of playing scientist in the laboratory in Coventry and Brighton and getting some hands-on experience before going in to my last year at Westminster.

fast forward

from snow and xmas hols to sun and studying for exams in the sun

xmas hols!

The joy of the christmas holidays! Getting up at 7 am and sleepwalking in to uni to work on my assignments: anthropometry x 2 (one oral presentation and one report), a nutrition patient information leaflet, Cell Science (an essay on dna replication and transcription, and some joyous revision for the numeracy exam in January. Just to mention some of the things that will keep me busy over the three week "holiday". To sum up my first semester at uni I have to say that it has been hugely challenging but fun! And although there are days when I feel I'm in over my head, I am learning so many new things and have a much greater understanding of the human body now. Incredibly interesting and I was craving a challenge...

Winter Wonderland

I am, however, looking forward to going to Sweden for christmas, above is a photo taken by my dad a couple of days ago. Bring on the snow fight, snowman creating, sleigh-riding rammy! Also can't wait to chillax with family and stuffing delicious food down my gob:)

london is getting ready for xmas

lovely time of year to be in Londinium! As I was leaving uni today adther a mammoth day I walked a different route, down lovely charlotte st, to get the bus. It was already dark and it was a nice walk. I stood and waited for a few minutes for a bus at oxford st before it became apparent that there were no buses running. I decided to walk up to oxford circus and check out the new 'circus' and the reson behind the lack of buses became painfully clear; there was some sort of christmas concert going on (could they have been lighting the xmas lights?) and the tubestation was closed. Bugger. So I trotted down to tottenham ct rd and I wans't the only one either. Getting on the tube was a nightmare but I got on it in the end and made my way home to revise for my in class essay tomorrow morning.

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I quite like fridays because I get to go to the beautiful Regent street campus

there's something so peaceful about sitting in a dead quiet library as it gets dark outside.



Now, back to work!

getting on...

interesting thing happened yesterday. I was in the large lecture theater for the working in bioscience module. A rather 'bling' looking bird sat down next to me and we chatted about this and that (you know the usual what course are you in, where do you live, blah blah...) turns out she's moved here to study Biomedical sciences because her husband is going to uni in london and they are lucky enough to have a flat of their own in golder's green. Very lucky indeed.

So, she then turns to me and says ' you seem a lot older than the rest of us'

'Yeah I'm ancient' I said upon which she asked my my age and I answered.

'oh that's not too bad' she said as if to say 'well done for making it that far' or 'you look a lot older'.

Wait it gets worse.

Later on she asked my why Ive decided to go to university now. (as if to say what on earth has prompted you to get educated just before you die of old age)

I found this hysterical for several reasons. Firstly because I'm certainly not the oldest person there, nowhere near. Also because in my mind, and this is something I strongly believe, 18 is too young to go to uni! And i might add if my american friend is reading it is certainly too young to get married.

Now I'm not one for slagging off people on my blog so this is just an anecdote from my amazing London life. An observation if you may.

Oh and that's another thing I love about London; you can meet an individual one day and then never see them again. If you are lucky...;)

First lecture

So, the challenge has begun, I had my first lecture yesterday and although they're easing us in to it fairly gently I'm still excited about this huge mountain I'm about to climb. Yesterday we had working in Bioscience, a great way to start off the week and this morning we had a long lecture in Health and Nutrition. It was such good fun and so interesting! A lot of it was familiar but there was also some new things as we got an overview of what is to come. It will be followed by Working in Bioscience tutorial and an English Screening, which starts now.

Bring it on!