heyy it's been a while since your last update I hope you're doing well
Hey hey! It has been a while, but I'm doing okay!
I had my only exam for the semester on Thursday night, and I've been living my best bookish life since I finished- I started (and am currently about 100 pages into oops) my 4th book since Thursday!
Uni-specific updates:
Industrial Formulation: This was a stressful unit around submission and oral presentation time- half of my group literally didn't finalise their slides until 5mins before our 20% presentation. We also submitted our 50% report a couple of mins late... and I wasn't exactly happy about that (and I may have broken down), but it's over now, what is done is done I guess. I think we did okay though! (I'm also praying the unit coordinator doesn't dock half our report marks for being 2.5 mins late though -nervous laugh-)
Product formulation:
I finished my really colourful excel template with fancy features and I'm really happy with it! However, I had a creams report for this unit due the night after the industrial one, and I think I could've done a little better, but I think I did enough to get myself a mark I'd be happy with, given the feedback for a report we did a couple of weeks before was given to us a day before it was due, it was a pain to fix up a good 25 pages before due time!
Biotech:
I'm feeling really, really good about this unit! My group and I fixed and finished our final group report and submitted it a good 8 hours before it was due! Safe to say, I kinda did sleep for that extra 8 hours haha :') I'm placing bets that this is going to be my top subject this semester haha!
Analytical methods:
I was so confused about my exam- we had 2 hours, it was open book, and we had 2 'cheat sheets' we could bring in. Yet it was only worth 20 marks. Otherwise, I think I'm glad to be done with this unit, I don't want to see yet another 3-hour-long moodle quiz in my life :') I may however be in the lab during winter if my unit coordinator lets us do our induction on Monday haha- using the HPLC machines are fun!
On the clubs front, it's a little quiet, given it's still exam time/winter break!
Even though I don't go back until 29th July, I've had a look at the cohort timetable, looks like my days of double lab at uni are over, which is a relief, but it'll be hard going back into 7-8 hour lab days for placement during weeks 5-9! (I'm not sure where my placement will be still, but I'm very nervous about it!)
Books read so far haha
The Paper & Hearts Society (Lucy Powrie)
Lily's Just Fine (Gill Stewart) (Advanced Copy!!!)
Legend (Marie Lu)
Shadow of the Fox (Julie Kagawa) (currently reading)
Spoiler
More excited about finishing this one in the next day or so because I'm going to see Julie Kagawa at Readings Kids on WEDNESDAY and I've been internally squealing all week about this.
unrelated but related book things
I'm also going to another book launch on Friday night, and a YA Bookfest in August. I haven't shut up about either to my parents in the past week, and I'm driving them NUTS aha :')
Til next time,
Lou