So I visited NYP with Jeremy and Shaun today. Well, interesting enough.
The receptionist person was... Not nice. She basically ignored all our queries and told us that we could only apply the next day. Great people skills.
Fortunately, we met an ex-Montfortian. Who also, conveniently enough, is taking the very course that I was interested in. So we set about to asking him questions and... Making him late for his lecture. He didn't seem to mind, though. It was very nice of him to hang back and talk to us. Basically, I found out that the polytechnic system wasn't that much different from a JC, with the very important exceptions that the main modules cover everything there is to that particular subject. There's still an elective thingy we have to do... But we get to learn a new language, or take some "Appreciation in health sciences or engineering" thing. Sounds interesting enough. Mostly because it isn't called "contrasting subject".
The main module has got these interpersonal skill thingies scattered around, along with a few mathematically related ones. According to our senior, it's some calculus and quite a bit of statistics. I suppose those are necessary stuff. If his information is accurate... It's O' Level calculus, and a bit more. Statistics... Well, I don't really know. But I can sorta get a picture from the name.
After apologising for making him late, we walked off to a certain area(which I'm not sure if I could find again) and noticed a bunch of lecturers gathering. They looked like they were waiting for a meeting(which they were), so we took the opportunity to ask a few questions. Coincidentally, the lecturer we approached was a biomedical guy, so he could give us a few distinctions between biomedical science and biotechnology.
And then we left, and discussed what we saw over pizza. Pizza which had a disturbing amount of oil. If you held a pepperoni pizza slice at an angle to the horizontal, you would have been able to see the effects of gravity on viscous fluids. Yellow, slimy, viscous fluids.
Putting aside oily pizzas... I'm not sure if the discussion we had was any use. I mean, what's the point of a discussion if we basically agree on everything everyone says? It's better to specialise if you already know what you want to do. Check. Proteomics is really cool. Check. Way-too-oily pizza sucks. Check.
Damn what IS it with this Firefox dictionary? They say that "proteomics" isn't even a word. Hell, they say that "Firefox" isn't a word. Brilliant.
Well, it's the big day tomorrow. Probably was the big day today, since it's like 11pm and I don't think anyone would read at this time. Well, time to put my hands in my pockets.
I love those pockets. They're huge. I used to carry my freakin' calculator around in them. But then I stopped doing that for some reason...
Well, a good day overall. I don't know if this is really a deciding a factor for me. I mean, the grass is always greener on the other side. How do I tell?
Or maybe I don't. Creativity will help me.
-Joe