Since I always post about A/Ls I thought about writing about the life after A/Ls. There are two paths to follow after A/Ls.. A job or pursuing higher education. Since I did an undergraduate degree I can only talk about that. If you decide to go for tertiary education instead of directly applying for a job with A/Ls, the next question arises. Where to go? Before that actually there is one more important thing people usually miss and of course later in life they regret. What kind of a job do you wish to have after bachelors? Will you stay in academia or want to join the industry? Your answer to that will help you in determining your university.

                             So this is one of the questions many undergraduate students have and I get asked all the time. So today I thought of answering your question. How to be a TA or an RA. I will start with TA because I was a one for a year.  First of all lets talk about the job role. A TA is responsible for doing all the practicals, marking the reports, invigilating exams and conducting tutorials. It can be undergraduate or sometimes postgraduate. You get paid around 40000 LKR in many government and private universities. Usually after completing the undergraduate degree you can apply for the position in the department you studied and based on the qualifications and the number of vacancies you will be offered a position. In most of the departments the maximum duration is 1 year.  When it comes to RA positions it is not very straightforward as TA positions. Most of the time the RA posts are offere...

                                               If you have been reading this blog for some time then you know that I am a science graduate and as an undergraduate I did two research projects; a year long final year undergraduate research project and a mini research project. So I thought of giving an insight about how to conduct a research and some websites/tools that might be helpful to anyone who is looking forward to conduct a research.

Since A/L exams are going to start within next few days I think, I can see a lot of viewers for my A/L posts. So I thought of giving you a bit of encouragement. I am a student who did A/Ls from physical science stream (Combined mathematics, Chemistry and Physics) and currently a 3rd year undergraduate studying nuclear medicine at University of Colombo, Faculty of Science. People think (even I thought) science faculties are boring and teachers are the only products of a science faculty.. Well that's wrong.. You can be a teacher if you want to, but that happens rarely here. None of the seniors I know ended up as teachers. The product of a science faculty is a scientist. Most of the people go abroad for higher studies (usually they get scholarships) and others join research groups. That doesn't mean you can't do a job or earn a good salary. That is up to you to decide whether you are gonna study or do a job. Main goal of a maths student in Sri Lanka is to go to an engineer...

First of all I'm so sorry about not posting anything for a while (More than 3 months...). I was super busy and 2018 started with lot of excitement (yup, it's still exciting) and since this is the first post for this year I thought of starting things with a recap. Sounds good ha? So lets get started.

If you are a follower of this blog you already know that I'm currently an undergraduate in the Faculty of science of University of Colombo.. So I'll be starting my junior year in the university in next month and I wanted to share things I wish I knew in my freshman and sophomore years. I can only show you the way and it's your decision to make whether you are going to follow it or not. I'm writing this based on my experiences and things I saw and heard during those 2 years and I hope you won't do the mistakes we did and wish you good luck in following your dreams.. :)

 If you are a frequent reader of this blog, then you may know that I went to Uni last year..  I went through lots of things and I mentioned some of them previously.. Through my experiences I though of giving some tips to survive the university.. So that you won't do the mistakes I did. I can still remember the day I entered the university..fully determined to learn and win.. However coz of an unfortunate situation my first semester was wasted.. and had to work hard to catch those things up in the second semester. However here are some tips to win the university and make your dreams come true.

Well this is not something I personally like to speak about, but something made me interested in this topic,which will be in the below image. I was shocked to see that.

Well I joined to CUV FOS..It's a new concept and a sort of an organization ...not per faculty..but a one organization for the whole campus..it's kinda cool isn't it? With 100 cool people from 1st and 2nd years of all the faculties including UCSC,IIM and Sripalee. A one big family who are willing to make others feel happy and be happy through that.United Nations and the student counselors will be guiding of course..Basically knowledge based volunteerism is the main idea behind this, but we will be helping others in anywhere where they need a helping hand.. I'm kind of excited since this is a once in a life time opportunity to join United Nations and work with them..(I always dreamed of something like this. It's like finally I have started feeling like I have grown up and big enough to serve community from what I have learned so far) So stay in touch and I'll keep you posted.... :)

So after a long break I'm posting something new today.. it's something i wanted to tell you from the beginning of the new semester..but i'm lucky that i had to postpone it coz today i got tons of ideas to add to this post. I just finished watching a movie..that's what gave me something new to think about. So this movie was quite a famous one in sri lanka but i couldn't watch it. It's name is "ho gana pokuna" (the singing pond). So for the people who don't know the story i'll give a brief idea.  A new teacher comes to a school which is situated in an extremely rural area in sri lanka. There are only 18 children in this school (usually schools in sri lanka have thousands per school. For an example there were about 5000 students in my school)Since there village is in the up country they have never seen the sea. So this movie is all about their trip to see the sea. What i realized from this movie is that i'm such a lucky person...