Ashmolean Museum and Seminars

Students had morning sessions with our excellent tutors again today. Psychology students went through the concepts of correlation, causation and experimental design in relation to psychological experiments before moving on to an introduction to neuroscience. The main areas of the brain were covered before students learnt about different methods of brain imaging. They were challenged to think about what features of the different imaging methods made them suited to their particular uses in neuroscience and psychology. Jen, Joy and Felix all came up with excellent suggestions.

The afternoon activity for the day was a visit to the Ashmolean museum. The Ashmolean is the world's first university museum, and home to a wide variety of art and archaeological treasures.

Students were sent on a mission to find the collection of rings that inspired the One Ring from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Other highlights of the collections included the Kish Tablet, thought to be the oldest written document, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo and Raphael and the death mask of Oliver Cromwell.

In the evening a meal at Aziz was on the cards, before students returned to the accommodation to begin their evening seminars. Topics for these included Life as a Junior Doctor, Philosophy and Ethics, Creative Writing, Current Affairs and Environmental Studies.