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What do you mean "no"? As Quebec is in Canada the correct response to my question ought to be "yes, I meant Quebec in one of the 3 English Peaking Universities." No matter. What is the situation there concerning fees for study, grants, and loans?? Thanks for the correction, Hobb...

Can I ask why you jumped out of medicine? Sure. Because I was too immature and hadn't given it enough thought before I went in to it. It didn't take me long to discover that I was temperamentally unsuited to such a career although I found the subject itself fascinating. I then saw myself better sui...

Sorry - do you mean an English speaking uni in Canada? No, I meant in Quebec province where there are only 3 English universities (2 located in Montreal) while the rest are all in French. We have complicated language issues here which are tightly woven into our education, culture and esp politics. ...

It's not so much a matter of memorising the Krebs as understanding the Krebs. Memorising the Krebs would be quite a feat of memory, even for a non-drinker which I certainly wasn't, but once you understand the Krebs you get an intuitive feel for the energy cycles and ultimately is is the energy cycl...

I'm a glass half-full kind of person but I get the message, Hobbes Choice. I'm Montreal-born and bred and just started university (English) a few weeks ago- Biochemistry undergrad. Sometimes in the midst of a 'difficult' course, I'd get an existential moment and ask wtf am I doing here lolz. Sorry ...

Biochemistry undergrad. Biochemistry was my first foray into the mysteries of science, although I've strayed onto a great many related and unrelated paths since. It fascinated me over forty years ago, and it still does, because the science of life is a science whose depths can never be adequately p...

Hey guys, I'm back and I feel like I just got swarmed here lolz.... Expectations disappoint. We don't. (Whoops, there's that damned 'we' again.) Really? Heard those famous words but no worries-I'm more a limbo fan than a high jump's... Wise choice of hobbies. :lol: Yup, definitely worth doing esp a...

Hey guys, I'm back and I feel like I just got swarmed here lolz.... Expectations disappoint. We don't. (Whoops, there's that damned 'we' again.) Really? Heard those famous words but no worries-I'm more a limbo fan than a high jump's.... "We" have "we" met? Anyway, welcome Dragon,...

Hello PN members....latest newbie here. I just started university this term so I'm still stumbling and feeling my way around. Hope to learn something from this site ie from you wise and learned folks so please don't disappoint me Enchanté.