"[Learning] promotes one's innate power"So it's been a while since I've blogged, mainly because I am far too busy with actual chemistry to do it (and a little socialising inbetween), and also because I haven't had much to say.
However to start off a new year I thought I would write a little about my experience at Bristol university... it's been such a busy time that I can't really sum up how it's been other than saying it is brilliant.
I love the city, I think it's absolutely beautiful, infact one of my favourite days was when I had just finished my lab on magnetochemistry (putting things in tubes and measuring their magnetic moments) which took 1/3 of the time set aside for it, and I realised I had lost my jacket. I went down to the porter's desk and asked if him if he had seen my jacket, which he had and he gave it to me, offering me a pair of gloves he had also found. I declined the gloves but couldn't help myself when he offered me sandwiches that the cafe couldn't keep until Monday, so I walked off with a bag worth £9.50 in sandwiches. As I looked out of the glass wall I suddenly noticed it was snowing (this was the first lot of snow England had this winter) and my day just couldn't get any better. Walking to the bus stop I took a shortcut through Royal Fort Lodge gardens which looked amazing in the snow.
Anyway after a couple of weeks I still couldn't get over how beautiful Bristol looks in snow, especially across the Downs in the morning.
I often go through Royal Fort Gardens and the other day I was there with Beth and a squirrel scampered right up to us and eyed us up, perhaps wondering if we would be suitable to climb?
Then we sat on a bench where a robin joined us and kept flitting from end to end of the bench looking at us and singing... but whenever we tried to take a photo it flew away. Wildlife in inner cities is always surprising... they seem so used to people and just so... unfased.I feel I should add some chemical relevance to this post, so here it is:
I have just revised all of my quantum mechanics. It was not fun, but it only took me 2 hours and then I watched a terribly sad episode of House to relax.
I think that's enough for now.
