More than studying …. (II)

If there was ever a time I wish I was a full-time student at The University of Edinburgh; that would be now. Judging by the rapid inflow of messages I get in my school mail talking about either an invitation to one road trip here, some sporting event there and some volunteering opportunity somewhere and another election coming up elsewhere – it all seems so exciting and I feel just a little wistful that I’m not in the midst of the flurry of activities in the campus. (And what is it about “The trip to Loch Ness”, I’m really curious as there have been repeated invitations to the trip since last semester). Anyway, they say you can’t eat your cake and have it, so I better just probably wait till I get the opportunity to visit Edinburgh, right?

So, in my last post, I was discussing about the variety of assignments that I’ve been having in this semester and I’m going to talk about my just-concluded Poster assignment.
Let me mention first that I had no prior experience in scientific poster-making, therefore, I was quite apprehensive about how to even go about it in the first instance. Fortunately (thanks to our ingenious course supervisors), in addition to providing how-to materials on making posters, we had the opportunity to critique a sample poster and I considered this a great idea. Everyone contributed accordingly and I’m pretty sure it was a highly beneficial exercise and learning experience for us, not just as students but as researchers, scientists and workers in our different fields of work.

Also, I reached out to a fellow ODL student and Nigerian who I “met” on the Facebook ODLEdSoc platform. He is a second year student running a course that I consider similar to mine (MSc International Animal Health) and he was really helpful in giving a few pointers on his own experience with his previous poster assignments. All in all, I tried my possible best in making what I consider very appropriate for some cool high scores.

So, wish me luck with that!

It’s just a few hours away from the next month and I’m sure we all had great times in January and February.

Just to leave this little nugget by Napoleon Hill – “There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it”.
I hope this motivates someone for the month of March and beyond.

Ciao!