Day 14 Monday night my group began our Jurassic park project, basically the project was to watch the film paying particular attention to when the crazy scientist explained how the dinosaurs were created. We then had to write a couple of pages explaining which bits were plausible and which bits weren't. Suffice to say most of it is unrealistic but explaining exactly why it was wrong was quite interesting. Day 15 Tuesdays are my horrendous day when I have 7-...

Day 10 A happier start to this blog, I managed to change one of my solid 3rd year module to a 2nd year module. The new course looks really interesting, it's molecules in the brain and the behaviours produced. Just finished reading about Positron Emission Tomography in tumour diagnosis! I didn't think I'd miss alcohol this much but I have been craving a cider, the weather is so perfect for it. At about 7pm it's still light and comfortably warm, I'm sitting on...

Day 6 On a Sunday morning it was nice to have my first lie-in of the term. I woke up late and skyped the parents. After a fairly lazy afternoon I went on a hike with a group of fellow international students. When making small talk with one of the german guys I asked "have you been to 'the hill' yet then?" (the hill is an area of boulder popular with students as this is where many frat parties are) I haven't been to any of the parties yet (you genera...

Day 4 I woke up at about 6am, clearly I'm not entirely over the jetlag yet, I am pretty knackered a lot of the time! The main event of the day was the 'chancellors convocation', this basically involved all freshman gathering in the American football stadium while a load of flustered looking chaps in gowns told us how brilliant the uni is. This did however go on for about 45 minutes during the heat of the day and with no shelter from the sun. I was boiling and ...

The flight was not nearly as bad as I thought It would be, although it wasn't without it's problems. We were an hour and a half late to take off, the sound of the engines finally turning on was a relief. But the engine's sound was soon drowned out by the token screaming banshee child and it's incessant wailing. Luckily the inflight entertainment system was good and kept me occupied for the 9 hour flight. After getting off the plane I faced the dreaded U.S bord...