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Today in class we had to talk about skills relating to the course we want to study during university, so Liza our lecturer asked us to list skills that we have that'll be helpful for the course we are studying.

I'm looking to be a pharmacist in the future, so I thought of a few key skills that I have that'll help me towards my future and career as a pharmacist. So here's what I came up with:

Team Work: Me personally, teamwork is very useful for me as I'm able to discuss intellectual information to other colleges and try to get a better understanding in something in maybe I didn't know before. In becoming a pharmacist, it's important to have teamwork as one of your skills because ineffective collaboration can lead to errors and poor patient outcomes, teamwork among health care professionals is essential for successful high quality care.

Self-motivation: I believe self motivation is very key as I'm able to set high goals to achieve throughout my career. My main motivation comes from the fact that my mum isn't well at all as is always taking different medications everyday due to her blood pressure and arthritis, so I am motivated to help other patients by researching into the drugs and making the medications and selling it in order to help the people, so it's a massive motivation for me when wanting to become a pharmacist.

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Liza gave us this website called "NELSON", which is a library and learning services (LLS) website for the students at the University of Northampton. NELSON is a library where students are able to read and study by using digital books online when studying on a certain module, or when revising for exams. I have used NELSON when I was researching into pharmacy in class and I found this website very useful so far, which is amazing!

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Over here, we were given information regarding our first official assignment called (AS1), which is due on Friday 14th Nov at 3pm. We were given 5 parts on the document, which guides us to achieving a high mark and grade on the assignment by giving us key info on how each part is important to form one great assignment to pass the semester. Liza explained to us how the assignment works and what she is expecting from us in our work.

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In this lesson, Liza our lecturer went through our essay topics and explained how to answer each section of our essays, and how to link different topics and references together and make it into one piece in order to receive full marks.

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In todays lesson we went through a PowerPoint talking about, "What is science?". We went through the definition, the uses of model technology and how their useful and how sometimes their an issue to the 21st century. For example, the definition for Technology, "the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry."

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I did some research on gene therapy and I looked into how genes are edited by using technologies.

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Today in the lesson, we went through a self assessment sheet called the SWOT assessment. S stands for strength, so your able to identify your strongest points such as communication skills and it helps you understand your skills and qualities. W stands for weakness, so ask yourself "what you need to improve on", whether it's lack of skills on a certain topic, or a lack of communication skills, this will help you identify the weakness and help you understand the weakness better and overtime improve on it. O represents opportunities and here your able to study more into your course you want to study. Taking online courses or internships can help you develop more knowledge and information about the course and give you a better understanding off the course. And finally T stands for threats, so here your able to identify the challenges and the obstacles throughout the course or any topics you study. Make sure you find solutions around problems and stay 2 steps ahead of any incoming obstacles so you are prepared and ready for the challenges.

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As I wasn't in University that week due to illness, I did some research for my assignment which is linked to one of my skills; Self-motivation. I did research on medications used for patients with high blood pressure. The reason I researched on this is due to my mum who experiences with high blood pressure and has had several heart problems linked to it, which was a scary moment in my life. As I want to be a pharmacist in the future, this motivates me to help more patients like my mum and give them the right satisfaction to treat them correctly with the right medications and to make sure they wellbeing is good. This research gave me so much key knowledge as I understood a lot about the medication itself, and how it affects the body.

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As I wasn't in University in week 3, I went through this PowerPoint to catch up on my work. This PowerPoint was about how scientists think working in a laboratory. I learned about 5 methods for what a scientific thinks about during a lab procedure:

1.Making observations, 2.Ask questions, 3.Form a hypothesis, 4.Making predictions based on hypothesis and 5.Test the prediction.

I also looked up about "the difference among a hypothesis, a scientific law, and a scientific theory" and "when does a scientific hypothesis become a law" to gain knowledge around each part to the scientific law.

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In this lesson, we as a class went through health & safety in the laboratory. We talked about potential hazards such as:

1) Explosives, 2) Gases, 3) Flammable Liquid and Combustible Liquid, 4) Flammable Solid, Spontaneously Combustible and Dangerous When Wet.

We also talked about regular hygiene in the laboratory and equipment's used in the laboratory to keep us safe and protected during lab procedures. It is a fun topic to discuss about as we went in pairs to talk about hazards in the classroom and had to rank each potential issues in the room.

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In class, we went through top tips for success to help us get through foundation year. The teacher talked about how we can ask for help and support when needed, and how you should support each other in the class and safety in the university.

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Here we learnt about research methodology. There are different researches such as pure and applied research. We also learnt about the research process and how their are many steps to bring out a full research. We also went in groups and had a discussion about choosing a topic and doing a group research on the chosen topic.