A few lectures and lots of KEEN

This week has been the start of the Foundation Course lectures which are intended to prepare us for our work next year. The topics have been quite varied, with some on how to read research papers and others on subjects like evolution and proteomics. Although some are more directly relevent to certain Options, we are encouraged to go to all of them to gain wider understanding, and incase we don't end up with the Option we want at the moment.

With only 2 or 3 lectures a day, many of which I don't feel the need to write up notes on afterwards because they are more about learning skills than memorising facts, the workload is considerably lighter than previous terms! Also, with no tutorials, and therefore no essays, evenings and weekends are totally free. I handed in my form with my top 4 choices for Research Projects today, so there aren't even any project supervisors to meet now.

Today I went to another KEEN session. This time is was ZigZag, an art and drama group (i.e. decorating balloons and singing songs like the Hokey Kokey). Every session is themed, with a storyline running through the activities. Today, we went on a hot air balloon, which crashed in the mountains, where we pitched a tent before being attacked by a yeti and having to ski out. I got back from the Himalayan adventure just in time to go out for a friend's birthday.

Tomorrow is our college ball, and then next week is Brasenose Arts Week, when plays and other entertainment will be put on my members of the college and others every day. But more about that next time...