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Hello and welcome to Day 5 of LIYSF 2025! Today was a bit different, it was finally a day to rest and recharge! While some students headed off on optional visits to Stonehenge and Hampton Court Palace, I didn’t have any visits signed up, not exactly by choice though. All the seats were full by … Read more
Hello everybody and welcome to Day 4 of LIYSF 2025! Today was the BIG DAYYYYY! It was finally time for the Science Bazaar where students from 92 different countries came together to present a range of different research projects. The day started super early as usual around 6 AM, when my roommate and I woke … Read more
Hello everyone and welcome to Day 3 of the 66th LIYSF 2025! It’s hard to believe we’re already three days in and I was especially excited for today because it was our first scientific visit! I woke up around 6, had breakfast and headed straight to the meeting point at Queen’s Lawn at Imperial College. … Read more
Hello everybody and Welcome to day 2 of the 66th LIYSF ceremony! The day kicked off bright and early, thanks to jet lag, I found myself wide awake at 4 AM. After trying (and failing) to fall back asleep, I finally gave in around 5-ish and got ready for breakfast before heading out to the … Read more
Hello everyone and welcome to this year’s bonus blog! Though I will be covering multiple days all the events were in the same area I figured let’s just condense it into one post. Bonus day 1 Although yesterday was the official last day of LIYSF, Issie asked me to help her to the airport as … Read more
Hello all and welcome to LIYSF day 12! This morning we kicked off our day with a principal lecture given by one of LIYSF’s alumni. Throughout life, our bodies wear down, whether it’s just old age, something more intensive like sport, or a freak accident causing body trauma. Though our body has some mechanisms to … Read more
Last night, after some careful consideration, I decided to skip today’s day trip to Oxford. As we are nearly at the end of the forum, I want to spend every second of my time with my new mates. For this reason, this blog might seem content dry compared to previous ones. However, for those keen … Read more
In all ways imaginable, today was the antithesis of yesterday. Kicking off the day the team from RoboHike walked us through their work on autonomous quadrupedal robots. From the devices and coding used to allow the robots to sense their environment to the current and future uses of autonomous robots in our society we at … Read more
With so many extra trips and lectures I chose for this London holiday it’s hard to remember what options I have chosen and what days they fall on. Ironically enough, I didn’t know that this morning I would be attending a lecture on neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia given by Rubile Balendendra. Similarly, I couldn’t … Read more
In my infinite wisdom, I’ve ended up booking myself to visit Oxford three separate times during my travels. Thus I decided to really take my time here. Starting off we began our visit with a guided tour of Oxford’s History of Science Museum and given an in-depth lesson on astrolabes. Photo 1: Astrolabe Esoteric in … Read more