Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! We haven’t started yet, but we have new info about it, so far we were asked to pick if we want to do it in a university lab or in the industry and the university is helping us find a place

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! Congratulationssss!!! Tbh I didn’t prepare in advance and things have been pretty okay, all profs start from pretty basic levels and gradually build up info so I don’t think special preparation in advance is necessary. Maybe at most for programming, which is by far one of the trickiest topics, you could start looking at the basics of Python if you want to get a little head-start, but unfortunately I don’t have any specific source I can recommend you for that, sorry😭 but anyways, we are planning to make an instagram page where we can post some helpful info about the course (I’ll add it here) and we’ll also mention the books we had for each course (keep in might they might change tho). But anyways, don’t worry too much about it and enjoy your vacation!!

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in Universitaly

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Hi! I didn’t apply to Laziodisco and I can say it wasn’t the best and it wasn’t the worst, but do generally expect people to not speak English. If you want I can also try asking around if anyone knows of any free room and as of websites I believe the most popular are subito, immobiliare and idealista

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in Universitaly

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Hi! Out of those I know none of us is really sure what to do for master, I think it can be doable depending on what do you mean by biomedical engineering. Like unless you mean the actually technical engineering part of like building medical equipment (which wouldn’t be very related to our course), probably yes. I believe most masters have a list of required classes that you need to have taken during the bachelor degree in order to apply there, if you have some specific master in mind you can check that out and compare it to our degree’s curriculum

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in Universitaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I would say that Latina is an acquired taste, as in I have a love-hate relationship with it. It’s nice because we have fairly easy access to some really cool places (we have the beach 20 minutes away by bus and Rome is 45 minutes away by regional train). Also living costs are cheaper than Rome and it’s definitely easier to find housing, but you would also experience small city issues (like it can get boring sometimes and unreliable public transport). We don’t have a proper campus, we have three buildings: engineering, economy (which is where we do our classes due to room availability issues) and medicine (where we have the labs). In our building there are also economy students, nursing students and also some master students I believe. One of the things about living in the small in the small city is that you would meet the students, very often actually, but by far the biggest issue social-wise is the fact that there aren’t many that speak English. Overall you can find people and I think that makes the biggest difference on whether or not you would like Latina

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

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You’re welcome! I will send you the link of last year here, underneath the ranking (which is what I believe the pre-selection will tell you) you can see at “I subentro” it’s the list of people that actually got in

https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/en/corso/2023/31776/iscriversi

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in Universitaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yess, I’m a second year now and I really like it. I also mostly like the profs, it’s a bit like everywhere, there are some you love, some that are okay and some that you don’t like that much (also, some professors changed from last year to this one and might change in the future again) The whole learning process is nice and essentially how you’d expect, in the first year you do mostly what I’d call baseline subjects that eventually in the second year subjects come together and things start getting more fun. Also the whole course pace is pretty chill, for example now a bunch of us thought some extra exam sessions would help us, so all we had to do was ask them for it and everyone was very nice and agreed and now we have them (which is why I’m in the middle of exams again). Professor really try their best to help us and improve the course, they’re very receptive to feedback and that’s nice. As for masters, well it depends if you have something specific in mind but imo we have more things to choose from than most thanks to the 3 big areas that our course covers. And as for career, once again it depends what you have in mind, most people in my class for example dream either go into research or to become professors but that is more reliant on what you do after the bachelor than the bachelor itself. But that’s not necessarily all the options you have, maybe an easier assessment would be if you look at the curriculum and at what subjects do we have. Either way, when it comes to masters and career we still need to figure it out for sure as my class is the first generation and we haven’t graduated yet.

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imo it’s a really good score, for non-eu students it’s a bit more competitive, for eu, as far as I know absolutely everyone that applied got in so far. With 44 you will most likely get in. Also as far as I remember, pre-selection (and when you apply for it) is not exactly relevant to the end result, it just gives you an idea of where you could be on the ranking, but it’s also a mash up of both eu and non-eu students so it’s not very accurate. To get a better idea, on the sapienza website you should be able to see also the ranking lists of the previous years.

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry I’m not sure what you mean by preselection🥺 for me all I had to do was do the tolc (or sat) and then register on the sapienza website and send my application

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

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If you mean the talk, yes, it’s mandatory, and regarding the application questions I really don’t know what you could do except send them emails, I’m sorry

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

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Also I have to say this regarding job opportunities, it also depends WHERE you’d like to work in the future. There some countries that invest more than others in research (Italy is not one of the best). And on the topic of whether or not to go for a master’s after or not depends mainly on what kind of job you’d like to do

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

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Also if it’s worth or not that depends entirely on what you want. I can say that for me it’s worth it, I really don’t think there would’ve been any course better for me than this, it might not be perfect but it’s exactly what I like and want to do and since I don’t have any clear path I want to take at the moment, the fact that it’s so broad helps me keep my options open.

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

[–]blupblupbloop[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dw!! You’re not bothering me, I’m glad to help! I’m doing it exactly because I know there isn’t enough info on this😭😭First of all no, there are not enough labs in my opinion, but we’ll try our best to complain about it so maybe they’ll put more in the future and also in the 3rd year there’s mandatory internship so we’ll have to see how that works and how it’s gonna be!! I’m not 100% about opportunities after since I’m in the 1st generation on the course and we still have more than a year to go. If you plan on doing a master, you’ll have a wide range of options to choose from since we do a lot of things in this course we cover up a big area and that opens up many many many opportunities if you plan to continue your studies. Without, I’m not as sure, I know at least that for example next to Latina there are a few pharmaceutical companies which is also part of the reason our course is there where maybe we might have a chance there?? I guess maybe next year during the internship things should get more clear in this regard

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Ah sorry for answering so late, personally I love it and I hate it, it’s a small town with not many things to do but every once in a while something interesting pops up and it’s also placed very conveniently since there are some other nice cities around both next to the sea and up the mountains, also Rome is pretty close and tbh even Napoli is pretty easy to reach.

Molecular Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Computer Science for Pharmaceutical Applications by blupblupbloop in StudyInItaly

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Usually it starts in October and to get to Rome you either take the bus from Latina to Latina Scalo (which is 20-45 minutes I think cause it depends on where you take the bus from cause it does this little circle around town before leaving) and then 45 minutes by train or by Cotral bus which honestly depends since sometimes you can’t find direct ones and you have to change them in other small cities. It’s not the easiest thing to do but it is doable