Cambridge rejections/acceptances

I said resistant bacteria could be a consequence of an increase in homelessness LOL (in my defence I had read it in an article but one of my interviewers looked very unimpressed whilst the other laughed so I tried to redeem myself with "Oh yes, well that's a bit of a long shot..." CRINGE !)

Sigh.. I stuffed up my interview so badly! Lolz it was for Law at downing.. but I hope that they look at other things too Poo

Could have. If you were in the cold tv room on the 8th. I couldn't remember very much of the dining hall. In fact I can't remember anything apart from the fact there're only 3 places for Comp Sci. If I had known that, I would have applied to do Maths instead. Damn!

When describing cystic fibrosis (is that how you spell it), I said "One method used to temporarily alleviate symptoms is where a specialised physician pats the CF patient on the back to loosed the mucus in the trachea, so the patient can then cough it up."

"So, you really think you need a specialised physician for this?"

He was smiliing, so I cracked out "Well, maybe someone untrained could pat too hard or too soft" and we had a good laugh at my mistake.

was it just me... or was edwardson really grumpy and disinterested while gillard was more outgoing and cheery!?

There are about three mechanisms by which antibiotics attacks a bacterial cell. In the case of penicillin, it prevents the formation of connections in the cell membrane, leaving the cell vulnerable to external attack. Other mechanisms involve destroying DNA and preventing transcription. The most common counterattack mechanism (the cause of antibiotic resistance) is a thickening of the cell membrane making it impermeable to antibiotics or a pump to expel the antiobiotic from within the cell.

When describing cystic fibrosis (is that how you spell it), I said "One method used to temporarily alleviate symptoms is where a specialised physician pats the CF patient on the back to loosed the mucus in the trachea, so the patient can then cough it up."

"So, you really think you need a specialised physician for this?"

He was smiliing, so I cracked out "Well, maybe someone untrained could pat too hard or too soft" and we had a good laugh at my mistake.

*ahem* - when identifying the different components of a blood slide, I though platelets were initially malaria - double cringe ! They laughed at me though (and laughed again when I disclosed in passing - it wasn't even relevant - that there are around 25 million million RBCs in circulation )

I seriously cant believe we got asked exactly the same questions!!!!

Did he then ask u about huntingtons?!

Hmmm...

go ralf!

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I was so pissed off after the shit I was asked in my interviews. I knew so much biology, but for some reason I was only asked on my weakest areas. I was asked how to do a microarray, about southen blotting, hybrid DNA strands, links between genetics and intelligence, differing action between steroids and hormones, how many genes are on Y, will Y ever become extinct, how chromosomes pair in prophase 1, communication between cells, how female hormones play an important role in regulation of sperm cell development in the male, and a bunch of other stuff....

Ralf which college have you applied to?

*ahem* - when identifying the different components of a blood slide, I though platelets were initially malaria - double cringe ! They laughed at me though (and laughed again when I disclosed in passing - it wasn't even relevant - that there are around 25 million million RBCs in circulation )