Category: Natural Sciences
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My year down under – future plans
Hi everyone. I’ve been down under now for nearly seven months. Though currently, I’m travelling around New Zealand with my brother and cousin who came over for a holiday (and…
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Studying in Australia: a Day in my Life
It’s a little hard to write about a normal day in the life at the moment because I’m on my Summer holiday from Sydney University, travelling around Australia and New…
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Day in the life of a Natural Scientist
9am – morning lecture I’ll try and be as honest as I can here. As a natural scientist student, you’ll get used to early mornings!! Studying multiple subjects means that…
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Venturing Down Under – the start of my study abroad journey in Australia
G’day mate! (Just kidding, I’ve not been here long enough to be saying that seriously). Hi everyone. I’ve been living in Australia now for 4 months, studying at the University…
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A Week in the Life of a Natural Scientist
Monday It’s Monday morning and I wake to the sound of my alarm. Somehow in the haze of sleep I have managed to snooze it for forty-five minutes and now…
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Things to Consume: Passive Learning
Active thinking can be quite unpleasant and sometimes – despite not being the best way to learn – it’s nice to just sit back and absorb information. Books If you’re looking…
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Easy ways to save money at York
£££££ Dealing with money is a frustrating thing, I hear you. It’s tempting to shut your eyes and ignore your perpetual descent into an overdraft. But here are a few…
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What to do over the holidays
The length of the holidays when you’re at uni is slightly absurd, by real-world standards, but its existence is well justified. What you choose to do in your 3 months…
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Colleges, Societies and Getting Involved
You may have noticed that the University of York describes itself as a collegiate university and, if you’ve spoken to UoY students, people often take their college (and its associated…
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Natural Sciences: Streams and Socials
As a little overview of what our fun interdisciplinary degree is like, I’ll go through a few of the streams you can choose and why we like them! Chemistry-Maths-Physics I am…
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My recent trips and outings in York (and lots of food)
The last month has been a nice one. I had my birthday recently which was very pleasant as, after eight hours of lectures, my flatmates got me cake, some crazy…
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Choosing houses and making food
So far this term I have signed for a house, made some great food and played lots of squash! I also got exam results and chose my modules too, which…