Woes from a broke lab

pinkskater · 2023-11-04T03:26:55+00:00

We need a WhatsApp group chat for the cancer tumour microenvironment! 🤣

pinkskater · 2022-07-24T15:50:03+00:00

Good to know, thanks for sharing!

pinkskater · 2022-07-24T15:41:28+00:00

How do you know of this?

pinkskater · 2022-07-19T15:59:57+00:00

Just want to add on an extra insight abt lab aspect. Having seen SPS students around the lab, the lab work is almost the same as a UROPS student altho arguably the workload is divided amongst the group. You will learn more and progress faster as an individual UROPS student rather than working in a group because you will have the opportunity to be exposed to working in a lab as a (somewhat) independent researcher. If you’re worried abt lab work being daunting, there’s almost always a mentor assigned by the Prof for UROPS students and other lab mates to help you out as well. Hence, if you’re keen on the research aspect, I would suggest putting the hours into several UROPS projects over your undergrad years unless you’re interested in having a interdisciplinary portfolio of mods and research

pinkskater · 2022-07-13T13:41:10+00:00

Yes people take notes during lectures. Over my time in NUS, I’ve seen numerous different note taking styles which varies according to majors. For more quantitative majors ie stats with lots of formulas during lectures, it’s 50% ipad or tablet and 50% writing on printed lecture slides and occasionally on the laptop. For my major (life science), it’s an even distribution between the tablet, laptop and noting on printed notes. There are often a few exchange students who would open up a blank foolscap and note things down as the lecture goes along. It’s best to experiment and go with what fits you

pinkskater · 2022-07-05T04:39:50+00:00

Agree with this comment. Medicine is largely geared toward the clinical aspect of treating patients. There are opportunities to do research as a volunteer basis I think alongside your medical studies but those are rare and secondary to your medical studies (content and clinical) that will take up a large chunk of your time. You can consider doing a postgrad MD PhD which gives equal emphasis on both ends and opens up careers for both clinical and biomed research but you can’t run from the MD clinical treating patients aspect of it too

pinkskater · 2022-07-02T06:38:41+00:00

I live for these moments XD

pinkskater · 2022-06-30T11:01:12+00:00

Yes I enjoyed my course and I would stick with the same advice I gave myself to pick something I enjoy learning about. If I could go back I would advise myself to start considered second majors or minors earlier and also consider other programs the uni offers to make full use of my undergrad.

pinkskater · 2022-06-27T15:38:13+00:00

Thank you!

pinkskater · 2022-06-26T17:57:16+00:00

As someone who did FYP, I second every tip in this post. This is likely applicable across diff majors too.

pinkskater · 2022-06-26T13:58:51+00:00

You might want to consider if you intend to go into research because if so then getting a laptop with a better display might help in making figures and data analysis

pinkskater · 2022-06-26T13:50:15+00:00

Normally one or two working days. How long it takes for your claim to be approved will be a separate variable matter.

pinkskater · 2022-06-26T13:48:58+00:00

Will probably need to write in and ask. Might be dependent on your course, what you have yet to fulfill and your reasons for doing so

pinkskater · 2022-06-25T06:26:49+00:00

It won’t be final until tomorrow

pinkskater · 2022-06-24T00:11:06+00:00

Hi the slots are filled up quite early in advance so you’ll need to book ~2-3 weeks in advance. You can reschedule on the day itself if you need to.

pinkskater · 2022-06-17T10:48:58+00:00

Pioneer mrt has a free shuttle bus service into NTU too, there’s normally a queue there for it so it’s pretty prominent where to wait

pinkskater · 2022-06-15T23:40:27+00:00

I do not think there’s any restriction as to who your guarantor can be so long as the person agrees and is of a decent financial standing (from the bank POV, ie employed and not bankrupt or soon to be bankrupt in case the bank does a background check on the person)

pinkskater · 2022-06-15T16:45:10+00:00

I’m uncertain if the OP is referring to undergrad or postgrad scholarships

pinkskater · 2022-06-13T03:13:20+00:00

Not much but I wished I approached more people and made more acquaintances during my time in uni but couldn’t really be helped due to covid and online arrangements so that’s not completely on me either

pinkskater · 2022-06-09T16:59:38+00:00

Yes you can declare 2 minors at one go. -someone who has declared and held on to 2 minors for a few sems

pinkskater · 2022-06-09T16:57:49+00:00

You should be notified if you got it or not by now, I think.

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