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I remember in first year, for my Histology final, I stayed up late going through notes and seemingly couldn't remember a thing. I got about three hours sleep, but in the morning felt like I knew it all.


Sleep is a great organisational process for the mind. Which is why usually I will stay up late to go over last minute notes, but I need a minimum of about 3 hours sleep.


And my exam went well. Heart Failure and Peritoneal Dialysis. Could have had much worse questions.

Whoops, with all the celebrating I forgot to come back and say I PASSED and have now completed ALL the requirements to graduate with my PhD in organic chemistry at the end of March

Now you're a doctor you need to wear a lab coat 24/7. Lab coats.

kiera229 wrote:Whoops, with all the celebrating I forgot to come back and say I PASSED and have now completed ALL the requirements to graduate with my PhD in organic chemistry at the end of March

Congratulations! In three years I hope to be where you are now, only with history and not organic chemistry.

StayDead wrote:Now you're a doctor you need to wear a lab coat 24/7. Lab coats.

This is true. You are not a proper doctor unless you either wear a lab coat or are from Gallifrey.

StayDead wrote:Now you're a doctor you need to wear a lab coat 24/7. Lab coats.

My mates and I are totally having a doctors-and-nurses-themed party as soon as I get back to Australia, it'll be awesome. I think I'll have to get a new labcoat though, the one I've been using for the last four years is covered in stains from all sorts of gooseberry fool I don't really want to bring home with me.

Corazon de Leon wrote:Congratulations! In three years I hope to be where you are now, only with history and not organic chemistry.

Thanks, and good luck! Do you know what area/topic you'll be looking at for your thesis yet, or does that come later? I have no idea how doctorates work in humanities...

Moggy wrote:This is true. You are not a proper doctor unless you either wear a lab coat or are from Gallifrey.

Oh I totally wear a labcoat.

Just got my first MA offer, from Warwick. Strawberry float yeaaah.

Congrats Clarkman, it's a strawberry floating good feeling when you get the offer in.

kiera229 wrote:

Corazon de Leon wrote:Congratulations! In three years I hope to be where you are now, only with history and not organic chemistry.

Thanks, and good luck! Do you know what area/topic you'll be looking at for your thesis yet, or does that come later? I have no idea how doctorates work in humanities...
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Cheers dude. I need to have an area of study all sorted out by the end of this month and have funding and whatnot applied for by March 31st. Not looking forward to sorting all that out but the end result will be killer, hopefully. I want to look at the effect of propaganda on Western Europe during the Cold War, specifically US video propaganda. It's not exactly life changing stuff, but I'm sure it will help someone...somewhere.

kiera229 wrote: I think I'll have to get a new labcoat though, the one I've been using for the last four years is covered in stains from all sorts of gooseberry fool I don't really want to bring home with me.

Mine is a constant shade of off white and won't go white no matter how many times I wash it.

Corazon de Leon wrote:Congrats Clarkman, it's a strawberry floating good feeling when you get the offer in.

Ty bro. It's a relief knowing that I've got something to do next year. Now I have to worry about getting some scholarships and funding.

I got an offer from Glasgow Uni.

Hooray! I'm so happy right now.

Clarkman wrote:Just got my first MA offer, from Warwick. Strawberry float yeaaah.

Congrats!

Corazon de Leon wrote:Cheers dude. I need to have an area of study all sorted out by the end of this month and have funding and whatnot applied for by March 31st. Not looking forward to sorting all that out but the end result will be killer, hopefully. I want to look at the effect of propaganda on Western Europe during the Cold War, specifically US video propaganda. It's not exactly life changing stuff, but I'm sure it will help someone...somewhere.

I dunno about life-changing, but it sounds interesting to me! Research doctorates in science work a little differently: you sign up with a lab group in an area you're interested in rather than picking a topic outright, then your professor and supervisor play pretty significant roles in helping decide what specifically you're giong to investigate. I actually spent my first nine months working on some reactions with cyclotrisilenes that didn't go anywhere before moving on to digermene, which is why my PhD ended up taking four years instead of three :/

Harry Bizzle wrote:Mine is a constant shade of off white and won't go white no matter how many times I wash it.

Yeah... mine's covered in chemical stains and quite a few burn marks. (It's non-flammable of course, but the number of times I've dropped molten glass on it while making reaction tubes...)

Rodders9 wrote:I got an offer from Glasgow Uni.

Hooray! I'm so happy right now.

Nice. What are the conditions?

Igor wrote:

Rodders9 wrote:I got an offer from Glasgow Uni.

Hooray! I'm so happy right now.

Nice. What are the conditions?

BBCC from the access course.

I'm really excited. Awesome feeling.

Clarkman wrote:Just got my first MA offer, from Warwick. Strawberry float yeaaah.

Warwick is the one

Harry Bizzle wrote:

kiera229 wrote: I think I'll have to get a new labcoat though, the one I've been using for the last four years is covered in stains from all sorts of gooseberry fool I don't really want to bring home with me.

Mine is a constant shade of off white and won't go white no matter how many times I wash it.

Mine is still white for the most part, except for a fair few chemical stains. You're not a proper scientist if your lab coat is totally clean.

Hit that time of the semester where I've done barely any work and have started to panic...

Urgh uni ¬¬

Written 1300 words of crap out of 2500 word report due next thurs, plus got another 2500 essay for the week after. Really cba.

My task this weekend is to learn about the immune system for an upcoming test.

Tea toast and study as soon as I can get finished at work.

Anyone at Cardiff Uni?



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His "I do politics" line.