Tag: manchester made me
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Manchester: how to live your best student life
Written by Callum McAvan, Student Communications and Marketing Assistant at the Careers Service. “Manchester’s got everything except a beach” – Ian Brown, The Stone Roses He’s not wrong. Whether it’s on your course, at the University, or beyond, your time at Manchester is a cornucopia of opportunity. My advice to you would be grab those […]
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Humanities Alumni Video Project at The University of Manchester – Jade’s story
My name is Jade and I am in my final year studying Linguistics. I knew from the beginning of second year that I wanted to do something productive with my summer, to boost my CV and skills before I entered the dreaded final year. I found out about SEI’s when I was walking through Sam […]
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What I did with my summer #1 My Physics research internship
Last summer we asked students to write a blog post about what they did with their summer. This is the first of our stories – we hope they give you some ideas for the types of things you can do next summer. This is Utkarsh’s story… I am a fourth year student studying for an […]
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MGIP made me
Jenny tells her story… Final year at university is arguably the most exciting and terrifying time of your life. You have to cope with a monstrous dissertation and looming exams, while facing the prospect of your best friend moving across the country for a graduate scheme, your housemates moving home and your course friends going […]
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What I did with a degree in Zoology. Graduate Charlotte tells her story.
By Charlotte Cox It has been over six years since I was accepted into The University of Manchester to study for a BSc in Zoology with a modern language, and I couldn’t be more jealous of those students just starting out in their very first semester of their Zoology course. In all honesty, first year […]
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Manchester student wins TargetJobs Undergraduate of the Year award
University of Manchester student Celine Dischamps, who is studying for an MEng in Chemical Engineering, has won a TargetJobs Undergraduate of the Year Award, in the category of Low Carbon Undergraduate, sponsored by EDF Energy. Her prize is a paid internship, a visit to a nuclear power station in France and an exclusive lunch with […]
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Manchester Made Me – From undergraduate to PhD student
If someone had asked me at the start of my final year of my undergraduate degree, ‘do you fancy doing a PhD when you finish uni?’ my answer would have been an outright NO! Yet, here I am, now in my second year of my PhD in the role of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk in […]
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Manchester Made Me: From Anatomy Student to NHS Manager
I started at the University of Manchester in 2009 studying my dream subject: Anatomical Sciences. Back then I had my future all planned out: do a placement year with a pharmaceutical company, graduate, get a PhD, make a major scientific discovery and win a Nobel Prize (or so I liked to think!) Four years later, […]
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Manchester Made Me – Making the most of University
For many, a degree is a route to further education or employment, but for most (I think) it is an easy way of delaying being a ‘grown-up’ and conveniently, it can be lots of fun. This is certainly true for me. At 18, I knew I should probably start thinking about the future, and a […]
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