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26 februari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Do's, don'ts & tips

In this last entry of my weblog I will try to set out the do's, don'ts and tips in Glasgow and Scotland. I will talk about the university, housing, sport, shopping and social life in Glasgow, transport in Scotland and around Glasgow, food, culture ...

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26 februari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

The final chapter

At the moment that I write this weblog entry, it's been exactly a month ago since I arrived in my student room after my adventure(s) in Scotland. The first few days back in the Netherlands were a bit chaotic. I had to unpack all my bags, suitcase ...

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26 februari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Going home...

I thought I had given most of my stuff back to the Netherlands with the parents of Mathilde. I had kept my very big suitcase, but I didn't expect it to be totally full. I thought that it would have been nice to have some extra space left in my ...

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26 februari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Last days in Scotland

On Tuesday (14th) I was supposed to work on the lab report I had to hand in that Wednesday, but it kind of failed, because my head was already on 'vacation-mood'. In the afternoon the parents of Mathilde arrived at Firhill Court. When looking at the ...

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19 januari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Class exam and packing bags

With only a fortnight left in Scotland, my days involved a lot of learning for the class exam we were going to have on the 13th of December. I had bought an advent calender and the count-down had really begun now. I was glad that I didn't need to be ...

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18 januari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

The wrong potatoes and the Big Surprise

Monday the 29th of November was the start of our last week of school at the Glasgow University. We started of with a two day lab that Monday and Tuesday. The aim was “Practical and theoretical exercise employing the oxygen electrode to study ...

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18 januari 2011 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

My Gaelic biography & 'St. Andrews'/Edinburgh trip

With less than a month to spend in Glasgow, including learning for the class exam, the days left were beginning to become more valuable. There were still plenty of things we wanted to do and see, but it was already clear that it was impossible to do ...

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8 december 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

More culture, cupcakes and Blackadder

Monday 15 was the start of our 4-day during Bioinformatics ‘laboratory’ classes. We were given the name of a bacterium and we had to look for an enzyme of that bacterium that we thought was interesting to examine. I was given the bacterium ...

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7 december 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Summer party and Pollok House

On Wednesday November 10 there were individual meetings with Angela Watt and Brian Smith scheduled for everyone in 3rd-level Biochemistry. Besides that we have had lectures from them, they are both ‘Advisers of Studies’ for the Life Sciences ...

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29 november 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Scone Palace, Halloween & tourist in Glasgow

Saturday 30 October we had organized another day trip, this time to Scone Palace, just outside Perth. The easiest way to get to Perth is by train, so that is exactly what we did. However, the bus from Perth to Scone Palace only departs a few times a ...

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26 november 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

School stuff: lab reports and Study Abroad Fair

This entry will be dedicated to some school stuff, since making trips is absolutely not the only thing I am doing here, haha. To start where I kind of stopped two weblog entries ago: the proteins laboratory classes. To celebrate the end of the ...

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21 november 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Boyfriend & the Isle of Arran

As promised, this is part two of the week my boyfriend came over. On Tuesday (19th) our proteins laboratory class was finished quite early that afternoon, so Guy and I had some time to act like a tourist (again). We decided to go to the Kelvingrove ...

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6 november 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Boyfriend, full day bus tour & laboratory classes

Finally the day (October 16) arrived that I could pick up Guy from the airport. It is quite easy to get to Glasgow International Airport. There is a direct bus (service 500) that departs every 10 minutes from Buchanan Bus station and the airport. ...

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21 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

How to kill your E.coli?

Time for an update again! I’ll start with the school related things. Our schedule of the last two weeks (4-15 October) consisted of one hour of lecture a day (9-10am of course) and a few hours of laboratory class right after the lecture or in the ...

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18 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Carlisle

Saturday the 2nd of October I got the train up to Carlisle to meet John and Beatrice again. They are both radio amateurs, just like my dad and we usually see them a couple of times a year. During my summer holiday between secondary school and ...

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15 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

2nd week of school

Monday September 27 was the start of our second week at Glasgow University. The day started with a little sleep in, because the first lecture of that day was cancelled. The lecturer, who was supposed to teach us, was on holiday on Malta the week ...

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13 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Inveraray Castle

Like I wrote in my previous weblog entry, we have already scheduled a few of the trips we want to make. One of them was Inveraray Castle, which we visited Saturday (September 25). While trying to plan this trip using our very bad internet ...

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11 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

First week of school

Monday (20th of September) was our first day of school at the Glasgow University. Although I was curious to know what the lectures and laboratory classes over here will be, compared to the Netherlands, I didn't feel very excited when the alarm on my ...

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10 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Edinburgh Castle

Since Edinburgh is quite easy to get to once you are in Glasgow city centre, we decided to have a look in Edinburgh Castle on Saturday the 18th of September. Glasgow to Edinburgh is only about 50 minutes by train. We arrived at Edinburgh Waverley ...

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8 oktober 2010 | Door: Samantha de Bruijn

Fresher's week

Monday 13th of September was the beginning of the Fresher's week. This is an introduction week organized by a lot of Glasgow University unions and societies for all students that are new to the university (first year and international students). ...

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26 Februari 2011

Do's, don'ts & tips

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The final chapter

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Going home...

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Last days in Scotland

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Class exam and packing bags

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