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Choosing which year of entry for your degree can be a difficult decision to make. Polly looks at the pros and cons of second year entry, and offers tips that every prospective student should know before starting.
Paola is one of our current Msc Theoretical Physics students. In this blog article she tells us why she chose to study at the University of Edinburgh, and what her experience in the School of Physics and Astronomy has been so far.
The summer after finishing my 3rd year I wanted an insight into research in a professional environment, and decided the summer programmes at the school would be a good first step. I read the profile for Dr Kenneth Duncan’s proposed project ‘Analysing the Rest-Frame Optical Spectra of Radio Detected Active Galactic Nuclei’, and it sounded really interesting, so I applied and was one of three students working with him for 6 weeks in the summer.