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Sorry for the lack of blog posts recently - my computer stopped working on Sunday! I've got a username and password to use the computers in the college computer room now (I did have one before but I hadn't used it for over 2 years so I have no idea what it was!). Fortunately I have a back-up copy of my project but at the moment I have lost my extended essay work - hopefully the computer people here will be able to rescue it from the computer soon so I can arry on working on it.
Having no computer and no open libraries meant I got no work done at all on Sunday but my parents came to visit so I saw them instead, and did not a lot else. Last night we had a medics' dinner and talk in college. The speaker was a historian who talked about sciences in Oxford over the last few centuries - a bit of a difference to the normal talk by some kind of doctor, partly because the original speaker pulled out at the last minute, but interesting all the same!
I went to the clinical school open day last Wednesday. We had a look around the teaching part of the hospital and had some talks by clincal school staff and students. They also showed us some very funny videos made by the clinical students drama group, including one where the clinical dean and other staff danced around to Amarillo. Even without the entertaining videos, I preferred the Oxford clinical school to Cambridge - there is a clinical student union called Osler House which doesn't seem to have much of an eqivalent in Cambridge, the course seemed to suit me, and I'd rather stay with everyone I know rather than join a group of Cambridge students who already know each other. So I'm planning on putting Oxford as my first choice on my application form, which was sent to me yesterday. I'm also thinking of staying in the same college - colleges are less important in postgraduate life, especially with Osler house providing social fascilities, so the decision is mainly based on good teaching (a proportion of teaching still takes plae in colleges in the clinical part if the course) and elective grants. The only disadvantage of Brasenose is that it doesn't provide accomodation in the first year of clinical school, which some colleges do, but I am thinking of living out anyway because it would be nice to have a proper house instead of just one room to eat, slep and work in, when I am here pretty much all year round. My potential housemates and I are now talking to students who already live out to get an idea of where we might like to live.
Sorry for the lack of blog posts recently - my computer stopped working on Sunday! I've got a username and password to use the computers in the college computer room now (I did have one before but I hadn't used it for over 2 years so I have no idea what it was!). Fortunately I have a back-up copy of my project but at the moment I have lost my extended essay work - hopefully the computer people here will be able to rescue it from the computer soon so I can arry on working on it.
Having no computer and no open libraries meant I got no work done at all on Sunday but my parents came to visit so I saw them instead, and did not a lot else. Last night we had a medics' dinner and talk in college. The speaker was a historian who talked about sciences in Oxford over the last few centuries - a bit of a difference to the normal talk by some kind of doctor, partly because the original speaker pulled out at the last minute, but interesting all the same!
I went to the clinical school open day last Wednesday. We had a look around the teaching part of the hospital and had some talks by clincal school staff and students. They also showed us some very funny videos made by the clinical students drama group, including one where the clinical dean and other staff danced around to Amarillo. Even without the entertaining videos, I preferred the Oxford clinical school to Cambridge - there is a clinical student union called Osler House which doesn't seem to have much of an eqivalent in Cambridge, the course seemed to suit me, and I'd rather stay with everyone I know rather than join a group of Cambridge students who already know each other. So I'm planning on putting Oxford as my first choice on my application form, which was sent to me yesterday. I'm also thinking of staying in the same college - colleges are less important in postgraduate life, especially with Osler house providing social fascilities, so the decision is mainly based on good teaching (a proportion of teaching still takes plae in colleges in the clinical part if the course) and elective grants. The only disadvantage of Brasenose is that it doesn't provide accomodation in the first year of clinical school, which some colleges do, but I am thinking of living out anyway because it would be nice to have a proper house instead of just one room to eat, slep and work in, when I am here pretty much all year round. My potential housemates and I are now talking to students who already live out to get an idea of where we might like to live.
posted by Jane Davis @ 12:36 AM
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