Brain cells and alcohol?
Hey everyone, It’s been more than a month since the leadership weekend and it was so nice meeting you there. Another definite plus that now I am (almost) proficient in building paper towers and plasticine shapes! On…
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Reasons and Research
Hello all. And so the purgatorial period of exams conclude. Mine went… Well, they went. And now that they’ve went, they’ve gone, and that’s just that. It can be disquieting to ruminate too seriously over what you’ve…
Deforestation and global cooling: Wood you believe it?
Taking part in the Laidlaw research internship has afforded me the opportunity to closer examine an urgent environment problem using a unique approach. It has long been established that deforestation reduces the…
Getting to grips with Greece (and Google!)
Dear Laidlaw interns, Like a lot of you, I’ve been trying to make the best possible use of time between finishing my exams and beginning my Laidlaw internship. What this means is that I’ve probably spent more time in…
Learning from the leadership weekend
The Library – where I will spend the majority of the next 10 weeks It’s been just over a week since my last exam, and it’s just over a week till my internship begins, and I have been trying to use the time between the…
At the starting line
The beginnings of a leadership development programme The Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership began recruiting at the start of 2015. By mid-March we have our first intake of 50…