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I want to go back! Been to my first ever uni open day at sheffield today (having never bothered when I was that age) and after a tour of the particularly awesome chemistry labs I could have signed up there and then. O to be young again, still managed a quick pint before heading home so all was not lost!
It's all good stuff - Manchester Met employee. I've never been to Uni other than work. Did part time quals at college whilst in work to get professional qualifications. Degrees are 'below' what I got by the time I was 23.
They are impressive places now, but the kids don't half moan..... yes, you've got to work to get a good degree.
Snap! We were at the Sheffield open day too. Very impressed. Alas no beer as was driving (4 hour round trip) Found a great record shop near the Halls of Residence though.
Both the Sheffield ones have the added advantage of great mtb clubs and are on the edge of good trails
I agree.
I'm envious of eldest_oab taking mechatronics and robotics at Heriot Watt next year. Looks brilliant course, department and uni, with amazing prospects.
Even college - middle_oab is applying to Glasgow college for HND/HNC in computing, he hopes followed by 3D design/ animation at Abertay and on into film industry...jealous
I really liked Sheffield, go up to the academy a few times a year for gigs and it's a great city. Sports facilities were great too which impressed miss wrighty. Unfortunately we didn't have time to catch the tour to the halls but heard good things.
I go to 5 every year, it's still great fun even when you're working š
I've not been since I was applying for my own uni place but even then I realised that they love showing the the big expensive impressive bits of kit but the reality is that you'll never get near them. Maybe a small number of PhD students might.
ooh you've all been up this way have you?
lambchop - Broomhill by any chance?
Totally agree. I did a few three years ago and I was impressed by them all. Coventry even have a Harrier jump jet in their labs!
and after a tour of the particularly awesome chemistry labs I could have signed up there and then.
Have they refurbished them or did they show you the postgrad rather than undergrad labs 😁?
Got to agree though, sheffield is an awesome uni if you like either the outdoors, sports, beer or music!
Daughter loves sport, the outdoors and especially music, I'm sure the love of beer will develop at around hour 2 of freshers week 😂.
Labs at sheff have been recently refurbed I believe, I did chemistry at uni briefly so had a rough insight in to the kit and a lot of what we saw is used by them. Not sure about the million quid xray type death ray machine though?
Maybe a small number of PhD students might.
The 4th year of the Chemistry MChem is usually a research project where UGs work in a research group alongside PGs etc, so at least some UGs get to use the shiny kit.
Lot of love for Sheffield here too - spent a year there as a postdoc. Never too far from a bar or the hills! (no affiliation with the uni now though)
The big shiny NMR machine was at the back of one of the undergrad labs on the upper floors IIRC. Allong with the more dissapointing looking IR and UV spec machines.
The shiny NMR instruments usually have cryomagnets. It's possible that they have separate NMR machines for both undergaduate labs and research. Some undergraduate labs have NMR instruments with electromagnets, which aren't that shiny but are more hands on. IR and UV spectrometers are never very exciting, but are still quite useful - there's probably a good analogy somewhere, but I'm on my 2nd beer and struggling to come up with oneā¦ (but probably will just as I'm getting into bed this eve. 🤔)
I dont think we ever got to actually use it? Not in the first two years of labs anyway. We just prepared our samples and left them for the phd students.
Clearly still too expensive and shiny for us!
Pook, Record Collector. We got a bus up to Endcliffe Halls and walked back to the Uni. Wanted to visit Rich Tone Music too but ran out of time.
They've got 3 new nmr machines with robotic arms that load samples 24 hours a day now with one dedicated to the undergrads. They did contract work with it also to help funds. This is the quote about the xray death machine that is located in the basement with its smaller version not behind a big housing "The X-ray source in our Soft Matter Analytical Laboratory is as powerful as a synchrotron particle accelerator, can be used to study samples that are 100 times smaller than a human hair."
All seemed good to me.