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munro90

Basically I'm not sure the website seems to encourage sticking with natsci stuff. AFAIK you have to do a part 2 to get honours but I guess I'll find out the details when we have to pick our options at the end of the year. In all honesty i'd probably prefer research too, I'm looking at going to work in a lab in the states this summer. and MB PhD is mighty tempting!
A paper already?! :eek:

I'm impressed! Whats it on? How did you end up getting involved?

Yeah I know it does encourage sticking to the natsci stuff, so I do think the research is the best idea. I was told not to do the MB PhD already as I could end up doing it in something I find interesting but may not be beneficial for my future career due to it not being full related to my chosen speciality. Instead I was recommended to do the PhD at a later stage, like when I am a registrar.

I have been working each summer with the local uni on research projects. This year I was grading fundus diagrams for AMD. The paper is on the prevalence of drusen in younger populations. I am meant to be doing another project this summer as well :smile:

Reply 8961

mwiko

It could be lupus

What?

Sorry.. I was attempting a practice test for the entrance exam to the belfast legal institute.. It consists of ~40 pages of narrative [including bumf like maps and statutes], followed by 3 sections of statements.. you have to mark the correct statements.. which I don't seem to be able to do, because I don't seem to be able to be definite about anything anymore!
Eg: X can sue Y for breach of contract due to lack of confidentiality
-Breach of contract due to confidentiality.. hm. Well, was a confidentiality clause included in the actual contract, or just stressed beforehand? Can it be implied? Is this law even the same over here? Why can't I indicate all of these problems in this little tick box?! :woo:

Reply 8962

ukebert

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sonofdot

I have to say, as a northerner living down south, this snow is fascinating. We've had barely 10cm and yet every school in the area seems to be closed. I don't think my secondary school ever closed for the whole day due to snow... :holmes:

Although I guess it is the last day of term, so they wouldn't have been doing anything in school anyway...

We 'ad to 'op t'school as we only 'ad one boot. When t'snows came it were right cold, we 'ad to dig our way out t'house wi't'spoon. Well, I say t'was spoon, t'were more like old piece o'peat from t'roof we used to eat with.

:p:

Reply 8963

Slumpy

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ukebert

We 'ad to 'op t'school as we only 'ad one boot. When t'snows came it were right cold, we 'ad to dig our way out t'house wi't'spoon. Well, I say t'was spoon, t'were more like old piece o'peat from t'roof we used to eat with.

:p:

I'm not sure you can play 'I'm from the North' with the number of people from the real North in this thread :p:

Reply 8964

Stratocaster

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ukebert

We 'ad to 'op t'school as we only 'ad one boot. When t'snows came it were right cold, we 'ad to dig our way out t'house wi't'spoon. Well, I say t'was spoon, t'were more like old piece o'peat from t'roof we used to eat with.

:p:

Not everyone in the North is from Yorkshire though. :P
Still, I applaud your effort!

I've actually started doing some work! Hurrah!

Reply 8965

It could be lupus

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mwiko

Sorry.. I was attempting a practice test for the entrance exam to the belfast legal institute.. It consists of ~40 pages of narrative [including bumf like maps and statutes], followed by 3 sections of statements.. you have to mark the correct statements.. which I don't seem to be able to do, because I don't seem to be able to be definite about anything anymore!
Eg: X can sue Y for breach of contract due to lack of confidentiality
-Breach of contract due to confidentiality.. hm. Well, was a confidentiality clause included in the actual contract, or just stressed beforehand? Can it be implied? Is this law even the same over here? Why can't I indicate all of these problems in this little tick box?! :woo:

So basically the fact that you are doing law at Cambridge makes you extremely shrewd and is so putting you at a disadvantage... nice :p:

Are you hopping to go back home to work then?

Reply 8966

smilepea

The optometrist I'm going to has never heard of DSA :facepalm:

But I do love living on the edge of town, lots of lovely crunchy snow for me to step in :jive:

Reply 8967

scarlet ibis

smilepea

The optometrist I'm going to has never heard of DSA :facepalm:

But I do love living on the edge of town, lots of lovely crunchy snow for me to step in :jive:

Parkside isn't the edge of town! Unless you're home and you are referring to the edge of another town?

Reply 8968

munro90

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sonofdot

I have to say, as a northerner living down south, this snow is fascinating. We've had barely 10cm and yet every school in the area seems to be closed. I don't think my secondary school ever closed for the whole day due to snow... :holmes:

Although I guess it is the last day of term, so they wouldn't have been doing anything in school anyway...

blooming southerners, a few flakes of snow and they daren't leave the house! I think I had one half day off school for snow in my entire life and that was because we were sent home when some of the outlying villages were being cut off so if we didn't leave then some folks wouldn't get home! (and by cut off I mean proper drifts of several feet!)

Slumpy

I'm not sure you can play 'I'm from the North' with the number of people from the real North in this thread :p:

You're past the North! Though I guess you live in North Scotland (aberdeen area iirc?)which is more

North^2

EDIT:I Just heard on the news 1500 schools are shut in the south east- wimps!

Reply 8969

Slumpy

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munro90

blooming southerners, a few flakes of snow and they daren't leave the house! I think I had one half day off school for snow in my entire life and that was because we were sent home when some of the outlying villages were being cut off so if we didn't leave then some folks wouldn't get home! (and by cut off I mean proper drifts of several feet!)

You're past the North! Though I guess you live in North Scotland (aberdeen area iirc?)which is more

North^2

EDIT:I Just heard on the news 1500 schools are shut in the south east- wimps!

I swear we had a few days of school missed..but that's because the buses came across the bridge to pick up like, more than half the pupils and had to be called off due do bridge closures., normally due to wind not snow I guess.

Nah, I'm in St Andrews(you may consider that Aberdeen area, I dunno :p:

)

Reply 8970

Craghyrax

OP

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ukdragon37

There are snowmen in Front Court. Either some dons have regressed to their youthful selves or ducks have evolved early.

Tbh I'm not sure why you're surprised :rolleyes:

There are finalists/interviewees/postgrads aplenty.

michaelyus

We practically get kicked out of our accomodation (conference guests :rolleyes:

), with a time limit and everything. I've been home for almost two weeks now.

Yeh, Downing do sound dire on a host of factors.

Reply 8971

Excalibur

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Craghyrax

COLOR=#0099FF]Yeh, Downing do sound dire on a host of factors.

What else have you heard about us that is so 'dire'? :frown:

Reply 8972

Craghyrax

OP

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Excalibur

What else have you heard about us that is so 'dire'? :frown:

Just about the accommodation (e.g. the fiasco with the mushroom mould while they buildt shiny new stuff for conference guests) expensive bar, kicking students out after term, and food apparently not being great. But all hearsay of course, since I've only been to Downing bar.

Reply 8973

Excalibur

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Craghyrax

Just about the accommodation (e.g. the fiasco with the mushroom mould while they buildt shiny new stuff for conference guests) expensive bar, kicking students out after term, and food apparently not being great. But all hearsay of course, since I've only been to Downing bar.

mushroom mould sounds pretty dire. But in general, the accommodation is okay... I was bottom of the ballot last year and still got a decent room with en-suite and a proper kitchen with hobs/ovens/freezers - and it's all on site or on Lensfield. First year accommodation is mostly superb and third year rooms are pretty decent too. And afaik only first years are kicked out straight after term. Food is also pretty good - it has its off days, but it's certainly not dire! (Formal food can be, though, especially at times when I decide to bring guests. :rolleyes:

)

You do have a point about the conference-guest worship though; I guess that's the consequence of being at a poor college that needs to bring in revenue somewhere :p:

Reply 8974

Craghyrax

OP

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Excalibur

mushroom mould sounds pretty dire. But in general, the accommodation is okay... I was bottom of the ballot last year and still got a decent room with en-suite and a proper kitchen with hobs/ovens/freezers - and it's all on site or on Lensfield. First year accommodation is mostly superb and third year rooms are pretty decent too. And afaik only first years are kicked out straight after term. Food is also pretty good - it has its off days, but it's certainly not dire! (Formal food can be, though, especially at times when I decide to bring guests. :rolleyes:

)

The mould thing was in Varsity. Might have been 07/08 though. And sounds similar to Peterhouse in that sense. Except all our accommodation is nice, bar Parkside which nobody has to go to unless they choose to. Oh yeh, the other thing was maintenance not repairing things quickly when asked.

Excalibur

You do have a point about the conference-guest worship though; I guess that's the consequence of being at a poor college that needs to bring in revenue somewhere :p:

Peterhouse sometimes behaves like a poor college even though its not, which is annoying. But oh well.

Reply 8975

smilepea

scarlet ibis

Parkside isn't the edge of town! Unless you're home and you are referring to the edge of another town?

Yes I'm home home, with fields on 3 sides of my house (well to all intensive purposes). I've only seen the edge of Cambridge out Barty Road, I've never got out of it via Hills Road

Reply 8976

Craghyrax

OP

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I've been out a few edges of Cambridge due to going places for walks with my Grandmother, visiting Cambridge '800 Wood' (Madingley) walking to Waterbeach to see FTB and scarlet ibis, and walking to Trumpington, Newnham and Girton and going to an arts exhibition held in a manor in the middle of the countryside.

I seem to have escaped my grandmother trying to get 10 kg of grandchildren's presents to Bristol via me which usually seems to happen :facepalm:

only to have my Uncle try to get me to collect presents from someone else in London en route :shifty:

I don't think they realise that when I'm packing clothes, books, a laptop and my own presents for 12 cousins, three sets of Uncle and Aunt etc and visiting Bristol and Canterbury, I don't really need to be taking on any more presents...

Reply 8977

Zoedotdot

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smilepea

Yes I'm home home, with fields on 3 sides of my house (well to all intensive purposes). I've only seen the edge of Cambridge out Barty Road, I've never got out of it via Hills Road

Are you on Gresham/Glisson Road at Cam? That's where one of our bits of accommodation is - two houses knocked into one at the junction of the two roads with a little passageway going over big garage doors.