Interview + Thin
1) My interview at Manchester was today and it went really well. The only problem was I started to fall for the city- it's lush. But I really have been adamant that Newcastle will remain my first choice.
I was a bit nervous by the time I got there, which was a new reason not to be hungry (hurrah), so I ate a cucumber stick, a strawberry and a sausage roll. I do not like sausage rolls. Yuck. It was, however, a sausage roll of the faux-gourmet variety (oddly shaped with sesame seeds on top). Yeah, still rank as far as I was concerned.
ANYHOO, this is not about the sausage roll.
Nice little campus tour, didn't know they had THREE academies in Manchester, there are only two in Newcastle (I still love them dearly, I am not complaining), and the city is so BIG.
The interview was good fun actually, although I've always been told that interviewers will not test your knowledge of the subject- LIES. I mentioned telomeres, he asked what they were (sneaky sneaky, he knew, I knew, why did he have to ask? But at least I did know); I said I was particularly interested with the inheritance of disease, he asked for an example; I said Huntington's, he asked what it was/how it affected the sufferer. Luckily I knew all the answers, they weren't difficult questions, but it was a bit odd considering I was so unprepared to have my knowledge of genetics tested.
So at the end, he said he was delighted to make me an offer- of AAB (the As to be in biology and chemistry and the B to be in French). That's good, that's fine, that's doable... it's also my highest offer and happens to be from the university I was hoping could be my insurance choice. Damn. So it's Newcastle as firm choice and Edinburgh as insurance choice after all.
2) I couldn't get to Wolsingham yesterday to give blood because of the snow, and in the end I was so carried away with being marauded in my own home that I forgot about it until after the appointment time. I weighed myself before I went in the bath and discovered that I have lost nearly half a stone in four days :O then I was lying in the bath mulling over this pleasing piece of news, and suddenly realised that my new weight was nealy half a stone less than the minimum weight you have to be to give blood. I had a mini panic ("oh no I can't give blood now what will they say?") and then realised I'd missed my appointment anyway. Oh man, I've not been this light for ages, I'll have to put on half a stone again to give blood :(
Still. 106lbs :)
Byeee,
Kit
I was a bit nervous by the time I got there, which was a new reason not to be hungry (hurrah), so I ate a cucumber stick, a strawberry and a sausage roll. I do not like sausage rolls. Yuck. It was, however, a sausage roll of the faux-gourmet variety (oddly shaped with sesame seeds on top). Yeah, still rank as far as I was concerned.
ANYHOO, this is not about the sausage roll.
Nice little campus tour, didn't know they had THREE academies in Manchester, there are only two in Newcastle (I still love them dearly, I am not complaining), and the city is so BIG.
The interview was good fun actually, although I've always been told that interviewers will not test your knowledge of the subject- LIES. I mentioned telomeres, he asked what they were (sneaky sneaky, he knew, I knew, why did he have to ask? But at least I did know); I said I was particularly interested with the inheritance of disease, he asked for an example; I said Huntington's, he asked what it was/how it affected the sufferer. Luckily I knew all the answers, they weren't difficult questions, but it was a bit odd considering I was so unprepared to have my knowledge of genetics tested.
So at the end, he said he was delighted to make me an offer- of AAB (the As to be in biology and chemistry and the B to be in French). That's good, that's fine, that's doable... it's also my highest offer and happens to be from the university I was hoping could be my insurance choice. Damn. So it's Newcastle as firm choice and Edinburgh as insurance choice after all.
2) I couldn't get to Wolsingham yesterday to give blood because of the snow, and in the end I was so carried away with being marauded in my own home that I forgot about it until after the appointment time. I weighed myself before I went in the bath and discovered that I have lost nearly half a stone in four days :O then I was lying in the bath mulling over this pleasing piece of news, and suddenly realised that my new weight was nealy half a stone less than the minimum weight you have to be to give blood. I had a mini panic ("oh no I can't give blood now what will they say?") and then realised I'd missed my appointment anyway. Oh man, I've not been this light for ages, I'll have to put on half a stone again to give blood :(
Still. 106lbs :)
Byeee,
Kit