Bioscience engineering

Hey, I'm a 21 year old student in Leuven, Belgium. As a bioscience engineer (major agriculture) in training I love everything that has anything to do with nature. I hope this blog helps me to study and maybe even help others to do the same. main blog: Les Fleurs de la Nuit

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27/12/2017// Hope you all are having happy holidays! I am trying to bring the holiday spirit on my desk to motivate me. Studying in the christmas holiday is the worst.

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23/11/2017// Just finished my reflection paper on the simulation game we did on the COP23. On to the next one, this time about the stance of the flemisch government on GMO’s. 

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29/10/2017// messy set up for today’s study session at home. Some nice study music and flowers always make studying more pleasant/

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17/10/2017// doing some work on plant hormones, I have no idea how I ever gonna remember all these different pathways but we’ll see.

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12/10/2017// My mom got this agenda and to do list from Yves Roger as a gift I think and gave it to me. I’m quite pleased with it cause I had been searching for an agenda with one week over two pages and couldn’t find one that i liked but this one is perfect!

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02/10/2017// I think I have a new personal record: going to the library in the second week of the semester! I have to make breeding programme for sorghum so I looked in some books for inspiration.

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30/09/2017// First week of the new semester is already over. 5 new courses: ‘plant physiology’, ‘multivariate statistical analysis’, ‘applied breeding’, ‘global environmental politics’ and ‘agriculture economics and food policy in developing countries’. It took my a week to remember them all. 

For most of them I have to read and write papers. That’s a lot of work but I’ll manage. It’s the roleplay I don’t look forward to. We’re going to simulate a climate conference in politics where each of us has to represent a country. I hope I get a small island in the specific because negotiating is not my strong suit.

So let’s hope everything goes well and then I’m off to Stellenbosch in Januari!

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24/6/2017// I got the confirmation that i can study a semester in Stellenbosch next year!!! I am so happy after the long wait. So all i have to do is finish this last two exams succesfully and i am good to go.

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19/6/2017// It should be forbidden to study when it's more than 30°C. All i want to do is lay down on the ground like a starfish. But oh no, I have to study about bees and domestication (at least it's not the most difficult subject).

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17/6/17// Apparently a whole semester has gone by without a single post from me. It was a very busy semester because i had to do my bachelor paper. Now that's done i have already done two exams: mechanical movement and plantproduction. Only two more exams to go next week, although they are on two consecutive days. Wednesday agriculture economy and thursday animalproduction. Currently studying on my bed cause i am starting to hate sitting at a desk.

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13/02/2017

The one week holiday is over and I am definitely not ready to start the next semester. I went skiing with friends and the university in France. We skied from 9 till 16 then après-ski and going out in the evening. Needless to say it was a great holiday but also very tirying. We arrived back home sunday morning and less than 12 hours later I was already back to my study house.

We also recieved our results on holiday which was kind of stressy cause we didn’t have wifi so we had to go to a cafe to use theirs. I passed 4 out of 5 exams which was what I had expected so I am happy with the results. If I don’t fail a course this semester I don’t even have to retake it in the summer.

Which brings me back to this semester. I don’t even fully know which courses I’m taken and is so hard to find the ones I want to follow and that fit in my schedule. On top of that I have to take the decision if I want to go to South-Africa next year for a semester and think about all that administration. So if anyone studies at Stellenbosch or studied there, information is always appreciated. 

Let’s hope this semester goes as good as last one.

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03/02/2017// 62/62 days till my last exam.

It’s over!!! Did the last exam today and now i am finished. I am so tired but i have to pack all my ski stuff cause i leave this evening. I can’t wait! Hopefully i can sleep a bit on the bus but i don’t think it will be a problem cause i almost fell asleep on the train home.

So i see you guys next week on the 13 of february, if i decide to post something. Because let’s be honest there is not much to study the first week and i definitily don’t want to.

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30/01/2017// 58/92 days till my last exam.

Only 5 crosses left, hopefully i don’t go mental in that time. 

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28/01/2017// 56/62 days till my last exam.

Only one more exam to go and it is next friday so i have plenty of time to study. Even so much that i can procrastinate and not feel guilty, maybe i should feel a bit guilty. One week to go, i hope i can stay awake till then (i obviously mean during the day,, at night i sleep as much as i can).

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24/01/2017// 53/62 days till my last exam. 

Today’s exam went okay i think. It will not be outstanding but I hope it will do the job. Friday is the next one and i am already exhausted. Luckily there’s is less than 10 days left!!!

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22/01/2017// 51/

62 days till my last exam. Got this new water bottle today and i love it! It's all about the exagerated and let's face it sarcastic slogans.

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21/01/2017// 50/62 days till my last exam. 

My list of chapters to study for the breeding exam tuesday. I’m kinda on track ... if i work a bit harder tomorrow.