Hola people!! I have to confess I really really really don't like writing blogs!! I just can’t think of what to write easily!! Hopefully I’ll be enough inspired to make the reading interesting...! So! Here it goes! As you probably already know we started 5 weeks ago!! It feels like months, but at the same time, 5 weeks it’s like wow!!Time flies! Except when you really want it to go fast of course, like in some lectures were you get bombarded with numbers and equations or weird questions when all you want to do is sleep because the previous night you provably went out, and if you didn’t succeed to “get in”, you’ll be still tired because you might have decided to have a “late” McDonalds (plan B) So yeah! Biomedical Sciences it’s quite hard but I’m really enjoying it!! We have 30hours/week (tutorials not included)!! Well I suppose that wouldn’t be a “good” quality But if there wasn’t bad stuff how could be appreciate the good stuff in life?? Right...! : D So! These are the super cool subjects that we have: -Cell Biology: I thought it was going to be about the structure of cells and etc... But it turns out to be, by the moment, some of the chapters I didn’t 100% like in biology, carbohydrates, lipids proteins...Etc, so at the start I wasn’t too happy about it, especially because we were looking at their “carbon skeletons”!!How does that sound? And similar stuff and I thought oh myyyyyy zzzzzzz...!! But I actually learned some interesting stuff, like small details that can completely change the feature of the thing or its properties by just changing their place... -Biomedical science: Well this is kind of hard, okay, to explain, okay, we are doing what i thought i'll be doing in cell biology (cell structure, the kingdoms, cells etc..) with one of our lecturers then with the other lecturer, okay, we went over some clinical aspects (sounds very fancy)of biomedical science as a job and now it's kind of calculations which we are using in chem. too!! well i like the biology part , the calculations are "okay". :D Chemistry: its more or less what i did in the leaving cert, but in more detail, so i dont find it veeery interesting yet, i suppose it would be hard for those who didnt do it...I have to say that sometimes it's good to get a fright, because you provably just dropped your friend's glases' box (without the glasses, luckyly!)in a complete total quiet environment, because you will definitly pay more atention afterwards... Physics: well numbers are not my favourite thing, we just dont really get along(except when you really need to know how much money you have left for the rest of the week, there anyone can be Einsten)but I actually do enjoy this lectures because the lecturer explains it very well, and makes it interesting! I mean i didnt know that if the sun exploded we would never know untill 8 minutes afterwards!! or if you throw something up at a constant speed of (cant remember) you'll just keep going, out of the atmosphere, even if you were an elephant, and that kind of thing...!it's great to be able to draw little men and elephant's in your copy and say it's not doodling, it's physics!!
Maths: well as i said before me and numbers in general are archienemies...therefore the situation can become worst if the lectures are made as complicate as possible...sooo yeah.. Creativity, and innovation , and teamwork: sounds very good, but it wasn't exactly what i was hoping for...See, when i finished my Leaving, i said to myself " i will never have to write essays, worry about english, in general" it was perfect!!..but NOU!! i mean i not only have to deal with maths, but i'm doing english again!! Well it's not that bad, now we are doing a newsletter, and this blog, but still I really thought i wasn't going to do anything like an article for a looong time! o well!..By the way do NOT be the annoying mosquito asking who is going to be the team leader, the consequences are very serious...!!:D But i have to say i like my team so it's all good!! LABS: Lab coats and goggles are a life death matter!! My favourite one would be chemistry, it's the only one were i dont feel vulnerable to questions, because i know what to do!! its great!! the other labs are good, but its the first time im thinking sooo much about pipettes and converting and sometimes it's hard to think, specially at nine oclok! oh yeah! i think physics lectures are great, but the physics lab are completely the opposite!( well ok, it was our fist lab) we did a 10 minute experiment, and during 2 hrs. and a half our brains were burning "literally" with equations and numbers and graphs and ...!! it was very very, humm, heavy. Anyway that's a resume of my academic life, i won't write about anything else, because blogs are supposed to be short...:D
See you!!
Hasta la vista biobe! maite

Better late than never!!

Hey all sorry for the delay in for in posting my blog but some farmer accidentally knocked down a pole near by house, thus disconnecting my broadband, though I don’t believe that it was an accident! I actually think that all farmers are scared of technology, and it’s all an evil plan by the IFA to rid the country of the Internet by knocking down as many Internet lines as possible, so we can talk about the weather more!!! Speaking of which today’s a good day to save some hay!!

Enough about the farmers and more about Christine!!!! Well, I’m from the buzzing metropolis that is Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry. Home of 36 all Irelands we don’t think we’re that superior though. I’m living in the fabulous village accommodation with 4 amazing girls, Eileen who has plans to take over the world and describes herself as the ‘next big thing’, Siobhan who used to work in 4 STAR Hotel until she saw her job being advertised in the local newspaper, Gemma from Wexford who has attended like 4 lectures so far this year because of her problem locating the bus stop and just getting off it in general and Maeve, who’s studying law and will be my future lawyer and takes any given opportunity to take people to see the cats!!! So as you know I’m studying Bio Med in CIT and UCC. Loving the general college life, spend my life at the moment watching TV and making prank phone calls and staring at the o so lovely nurse Mus!!!! Also me and/or the girls enjoy an occasional trip to the bins and if we are in particular good form we might even chase the odd cat!!! So far the only speed bump in our beautiful relationship is the fact that they are using me to get ever closer to my brother who lives down stairs with the lovely mus....and they also refuse to forget the ONE time that I tried to cook them alive!!!

Well that’s enough about me and the village people. Four weeks in I'm really liking the course so far, I've made a few friends and the course is pretty interesting so far! My only problems are all the 9a.m. starts, there really taking there toll on me!! Every time my alarm goes off at half 7 i can feel a little part of my soul dieing, and all i want to do is turn around and go back to sleep and maybe get up around one for home and away!! If it wasn't for home and away i don't think I'd get up in the morning! I didn't realise what an important role h&a played in college life, it's like a religion!!

Well i'm off, i'll be back again in a few weeks.

Christine