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Happy Birthday General Relativity!

MSCi Physics

Last week it was exactly 100 years since Einstein officially presented his theory of general relativity. I’m studying course on it at the moment, and was so excited to go along to Imperial’s celebration of the event which Stephen Hawking was meant to be speaking at. Unfortunately he had to cancel at the last minute due to an illness, but there were other great speakers, including my lecturer Prof. Dowker who I’ve raved about before!

Here is the link to the recording of the event if you would like to watch it.

You’ll probably have seen articles about General Relativity everywhere last week, but this is one of my favourites by the author of the geeky web-comic xkcd.

One 3rd of the way through 3rd year!

MBBS Medicine

These last 10 weeks have been amazing.

In Year 3 you spend 3 x 10 week attachments at hospitals. I was at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital the last 10 weeks and I had such a fantastic time. I learnt a lot but also overcame a lot of anxiety!

Starting clinical placements was really tricky for me. I thought as a talkative happy person I would really enjoy being on the wards for the first proper time as a medical student. However, my first day was a disaster. I had my stethoscope round my neck and my medical student badge on, and I walked confidently up to my ward.

Somewhere in London-Henry says Hi :) *First Blog*

Henry Xu profile

BSc Biological Sciences

It’s 9:56 am on Saturday and I just got up after some amazing-10-hour sleep 😀

Since this is my first post, I felt like some introduction should be in place. So HEY lads and girls/boys and lassies 😀 My name is Henry and I’m a first year Biologist at Imperial College. After spending nearly my entire life in this lovely city of Qingdao on China’s eastern coastline, I’ve started a new journey here in London. The little red dot below is Qingdao. (ever heard of Tsingtao Beer? Yep! That’s from Qingdao!) Seafood and German wursts are something you don’t want to miss out in Qingdao.

Welcome Week 2015

Franz profile

MEng Biomedical Engineering

Beware: This might be quite long.

Blog #01. Woohoo! Let’s get started.

Before coming to London, I lived in St. Maarten, a tiny island in the Caribbean, where the beaches are crystal clear and the airport runway is next to the beach. No kidding.

Did you know: London is 607 square-miles. That’s 16.4 times the size of St. Maarten!

Moving to an enormous city like London to study at such a prestigious university like Imperial College is a big step for me and my family. I’m so psyched to be here and I’m having a great time so far.

But anyway, how did my great time at Imperial start?

Set Phasors to revision!

Harry profile

MEng Mechanical Engineering

Hey All!

So, as we approach December, a somewhat less festive prospect lies underneath the tinsel and mince pies: End of term exams. Now, I honestly think its a good thing that we have exams, but it still feels a bit daunting. Therefore, as the title suggests, I have started revision in full force! Well, probably not full force – Let’s say a steady increase in force with respect to time. On the bright side, we just started a project in which we design and build a miniature hovercraft, which we test against everyone else’s at the end of the year.

New Masters project!

MSCi Physics

Last Wednesday I did a behind the scenes tour of the Natural History Museum, which was great. (Even if I ended up doing it on my own as my friend got stuck in Heathrow!)

It’s a good museum anyway, what with all the Dinosaurs, but to get to see some of their giant ‘spirit collection’ (animals and plants in jars) was really interesting. They have some weird and wonderful things there, including mice with transparent skin and red stained bones, a jar of whales’ eyes and a giant squid, which alone makes the tour worthwhile. (It’s a giant squid for goodness sake—all giant and pink and with tentacles with serrated edges.)

Conference fatigue!

Victoria Burton profile

Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet Doctoral Training Programme (PhD)

I’ve attended two conferences this week, with different audiences and it’s been tiring! On Tuesday I was the Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference held at the Natural History Museum where I presented a poster on my forthcoming Citizen Science project Earthworm Watch. This conference was a celebration of 10 years of the Wildlife Gardening Forum, a charity for people and organisations interested in wildlife gardening. The next day I was off to Reading University presenting the same poster at the Healthy Soils for a Healthy Life event held by the Soil Research Centre. This event consisted of talks, networking and workshops on the theme of healthy soils – including how we define healthy soils and what indicators we can use. 

Yes, I am still alive!

Isobel profile

BSc Biology with a year in Europe

Wow it has been so long since I have posted a blog! Many things have occurred since my last update in June, post-exams and we’re now midway through autumn term at Imperial! To new readers: greetings. To old readers (i.e. my parents): sorry I haven’t been posting for a while! I’ll do my best to catch you up with what’s going on in my life at the moment.

For one thing, the student bloggers are having a photoshoot done today to update our pictures that appear on the blog. Although the finished products always look great, the process of the photoshoot itself is very cringey and involves standing in a small room striking random poses until the photographer puts you out of your misery.

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