Hi,

Finally, I've got the microscope camera to work! I have taken some picture of my experiments and will get a few more next week - it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to get 'before' and 'after' photos, which would be ideal, because the bright light dries out the specimins, but that's not critical at all. The trickiest bit has been going into the lab at the right time to get photos at exactly the right stage - I just got away in time yesterday to go out for a friend's 21st bithday! I'm aiming to complete the practical work next week so that I'll have plenty of time to write up the project over the next few weekends.

I had a tutorial yesterday on neural plasticity (changes in the brain). It was less useful than most tutorials because a lot of the tutor's questions were of the "guess what's in my head" style - i.e. a very vague question requiring a very specific answer. In general, though, tutorials this year have been very helpful for getting a really good in-depth understanding of the topics. I'm writing my depression essay at the moment for a tutorial later in term, and I have one on addiction next week. The brain disorders theme has been very popular amongst the medics who chose the neuroscience option, not suprisingly, but with a bit of emailing around its been possible to get the tutorials I wanted.

Tomorrow I'm going to look at the house that I'll be living in next year with 2 of my friends and a mystery 4th person who we haven't found yet. If I finish this essay off now, it could be a nice relaxing day!