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Hi guys, I'm David from Auckland, New Zealand.
I'm in second-year biological sciences
at Imperial College London.
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So I'm just currently walking to the Sir Alexander Fleming
because that's where our labs take place.
I'll catch you guys there.
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So next to me right now is the
Sir Alexander Fleming Building.
It's named after Sir Alexander Fleming,
which is a Nobel laureate at Imperial College London
for discovering penicillin.
But yeah, this is the medicine building.
So this is like the medicine building,
and it's also the life sciences building for labs.
This is where undergraduate labs for
biological sciences take place
in the first year, second year, and third year.
And, yeah, it's good.
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- [David] This is one of the labs
in the Sir Alexander Fleming Building,
and we're just here today for a morning lab
in which we isolate some fluid using a pipette
and then we centrifuge to isolate an enzyme
which we're going to use for future labs.
- So, we just got back from the lab
and the lab went from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock,
so we're just kind of resting in the common room
and there's no one here.
So basically, my daily routine consists of
just waking up at 8 o'clock.
So I either wake up to study or I'll wake up
to go to the morning lab.
And, at Imperial College,
the days are split into lab days,
which occur once or twice a week,
and you've got other days of the week
where they just are pure lecture days
which consist of two to three hours of lectures.
And you normally have a few catch-up days,
maybe just once a week.
Where you've got going on then,
it's just made for you to catch up on coursework and stuff.
Good morning, I'll be bringing a series of videos
towards the YouTube channel,
regarding the daily life of a lab day,
the day in the life of a lecture day,
and a day in the life of, you know, just a catch-up day,
to make you guys see
from an Imperial College London student's perspective
what their weekly life is like
and not what only daily life is like.
And I think that's the point of the new series
innovation that Crimson is bringing to you guys all.
So, I think that's enough information on me for now.
I'm kind of hungry, so let's just go grab some lunch,
and I'll show you guys around Imperial College.
- [David] This is the library cafeteria.
It's where normally we have breakfast and lunch.
Another location is the Junior common room cafeteria,
where the restaurants are, and I'll show you that
in a future video.
- So we just got our food.
I'll have a quick look over the documents,
and we'll finish the food,
and we'll head over to the library
and do some studying.
So I'd like to answer the question,
'why Imperial College London,
and do you have a grade or not?'
Firstly, they're not graded,
and secondly, I chose Imperial College London
because I want to be a researcher in Alzheimer's disease
and Imperial College is known for biology
and is known for being good at biology.
- [David] So I thought this academic atmosphere,
and just the peer pressure,
could push me to my fullest potential for research.
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- The central library has five floors
and I'm currently on the fifth floor.
It's a dead silence, I don't want to raise the voice.
This is where the afternoon students come
to just finish their work
that they didn't catch up on during the daytime
when they close the labs,
just finish their lab reports.
It's a really nice place,
and I'll try to feature that in a future video.
So here I spent around two to three hours in the library
this afternoon, just finishing over some coursework
and lab work.
Normally go to the library in the mornings
if you have afternoon lectures,
or in the afternoon if you have morning labs.
And more specific video content will be shown
in the future, more specific videos.
Remember to ask any questions you guys have,
and I'll answer them in the future videos.
So we just finished studying at the library.
So I'm probably just going to go home
and call it a night.
I'll catch you guys in the next vlog
with more specific details of the lab day life
and lecture day life. See you around.
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