Zoë Johnson

Today I can actually post this on time, hooray!! The wifi man came this morning and has made us all so happy! To be honest I'm quite proud I survived without it for so long, but I've really really missed YouTube! I had my first lecture at 11 this morning, which was Meteorology and I really enjoyed it! There was a lot of maths but I felt like I kept up with it ok and it wasn't too confusing! The lecturer is really good and everything he says seems to make sense which is always nice. In the afternoon I had 2 Maths lectures. The first was really good, I can't believe I'm actually enjoying them. It was definitely hard but as long as I keep my focus and make good notes I can keep on top of it. I'm finding the topic really interesting, we're doing Vector Calculus and today we learnt about the Gradient operator which is basically how you differentiate scalar functions. I'm looking forward to seeing how it can be applied in real life. Then we all went to the...

I had another crazy busy day yesterday! My first lecture was at 12 and was on the Ocean Circulation module. It was in a building I'd never heard of so we had a bit of a wild goose chase looking for it but found it eventually! It was a very interesting lecture where we just covered a few basics and then looked at some of the properties of seawater including gradients within the ocean, such as thermoclines and haloclines.  After the lecture we had an hours break before the lab started so we headed to the freebie fair in the SU. It was absolutely PACKED!! However it was worth the ridiculous queueing as we got free dominoes, lucozade and candy floss, not to mention the mountain of vouchers that were thrust upon us!  Once we had extracted ourselves from the freebie fair we headed to our Oceans Lab in the ICT Rooms. It was a pretty quick n easy lab practical where we just did some revision exercises and then had a little play with a website on which you create some pretty oce...

Yesterday was the second day back on my course, and we had two introductory lectures, one for the Ocean Circulation module and one for Maths. First up was Ocean Circulation which I really enjoyed. Having done a bit of oceanography before, at school and in first year, I felt kind of at home with it all and like I really understood, which is always a welcome feeling! Again, I am lucky to have really good lecturers for this module, both of whom I know already and I get on well with. My second lecture of the day was Maths for Scientists B, which does what it says on the tin and basically covers the type of maths you will need to know in a course based on Environmental Science. Meteorology in particular requires a lot of mathematical knowledge so Maths for Scientists B and C are compulsory modules in my course. Last year we did Maths for Scientists A and I have to be honest, I found it really difficult. However, I've had extra maths tuition over the summer which REALLY helped me out, ...

Today was my first day of my second year at UEA studying Meteorology and Oceanography and I was so nervous this morning! I've always worried that I'm not really clever enough to be on my course so I've been nervous that its gonna get even harder this year! My first lecture was an introduction to the Meteorology 1 module and I actually really enjoyed it. The lecturer was really good and the whole thing just made me so excited to start learning about meteorology, as I didn't get to learn much about it last year so have been looking forward to it for so long! We basically went through what the course was gonna cover and then the lecturer told us about his own research project which sounded so interesting. I can't wait until I start my own research projects and do proper work out in the field, it just sounds so exciting! It was so lovely to see my course friends as well, I'd missed them so much over summer and it was so nice to catch up. They're all such lovel...