Revernd Awesome said:
BuggyBY said:
Revernd Awesome said:
Currently studying; Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Art at A/S
Excellent idea to not take maths, though that could come back to haunt you later on.
Oh how it has, Maths was never my strong point and I really doubt I'll be taking physics to A2, but so far I seem to be coping at A/S.
What's Chemistry like at Sheffield.
I've briefly described it somewhere above, though I can elaborate: I'm only in my first year so far, but all the teachers I've had are very good at explaining things, though the head of department gets really annoyed if you miss practicals. One of my teachers shows a clip from some Hollywood movie with a ridiculously far-fetched connection to the current topic in every lecture (examples: "Use the Force, Luke" during the assault on the first Death Star, in a lecture about intermolecular forces; "Red rum! Red rum!" in a lecture on optical isomerism; the scene where one of the characters in Fight Club gets NaOH poured on his hand, in a lecture on basicity; etc). It's the high point of my week, unless there's a really cool practical. Speaking of which, be warned: On Sheffield's undergrad Chem course you will be expected to stay in the lab from 10 am to 4.45pm, with a 45-60 minute lunch break around 1.
A third-year student has informed me that those labs can heat up to over 28°C in the summer, and sweat in your eyelashes is not considered a valid excuse for removing your safety specs.
Also, did you study Japanese at GCSE/A level before picking it up, I would assume you have but none of the secondary schools or colleges in my area(Brighton) are running it.
Actually I didn't. I did however take a year and a half of the BA Japanese course at SOAS, University of London (widely regarded as the most intensive East Asian language course in Europe), after my A levels. Then my second major depressive episode convinced me I wasn't made for writing essays about fictional tenth-century playboys, and so I went back to my old love Chemistry instead, keeping the Japanese language aspect but ditching the cultural history classes.
Also, double woo! I did my A levels in Brighton as well, though probably not at the same school - I was at Bellerbys International College, shortly before they got the additional campus that's not on Cromwell Road. Haven't been back there since, which I really regret.
