Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  As many of you will already know, as part of the International Baccalaureate, I studied Nature of Science which was a subject that combined elements of biology, chemistry, and physics, alongside a deeper analyses of the scientific method. For the Internal Assessment (coursework), we had to construct our own essay question based on a topic of our choice. I really enjoyed learning about the Miller-Urey experiment in class so I decided to write about this and frame my question into the wider context of the origin of life. In this essay, therefore, I discuss the value of the Miller-Urey experiment, which was carried out in the 1960s, and I also cover if the experiment, based on my findings, significantly changed the way scientists perceive the origins of life. I know that there is a lot of scientific jargon in this but I've subheaded sections for your clarity. I hope you enjoy this read and let me know what you guys think in the c...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Friday the 16th of September 2022, for me, was definitely a day to remember because it was on this day that me and my parents went to visit the Cambridge colleges for the first time. How strange it all felt indeed, on so many levels. I have been living in Cambridge now for 16 years. I have quite literally grown up in a university city  and yet, regardless of how much I have recently spoken about these colleges on my tours, I had never actually been inside any of the colleges I talked about until that day and what a wonderful experience it was. To me, anyone who has genuinely worked hard in their life to even become a candidate for such an institution, deserves all the praise they can get. Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in tradition; they will always have their students who have had these universities planned as their end destination since they were very young. But hidden amongst them, there are those have spent many hours wor...