...is what I am.
When Professor Jim Fraser gave the introduction today and said:
"If any of you are wondering if you came to the right place, you undoubtedly did. This is by far the top forensic science course in the UK", I just wanted to cheer.
This post may seem a little bit self-indulgent but when you want something for long enough and finally achieve it there's a natural feeling of pride. Jim Fraser's comments today just echoed what I already knew about the course's reputation, but to hear it put so confidently, well, it was something else. However, getting on the course was the easy part, there's a lot of hard work to come and, like I've been telling people for a while now, full time means full time on this course. We've 30 experiments to do in 6 weeks, that's one in every half day lab session and that's not even including the lectures and theory. The timetable is very interesting and I can't wait to get started on it. Some of the techniques we are to learn in Semester 1 are:
Casting of toolmarks
Microscopy of documents
Recovering fibres from tapelifts
Blood presumptive tests
Presumptive / confirmatory tests for semen and saliva
Writing of court reports
Blood pattern analysis
Bloodsplash
TLC of inks and fibre dyes
Examining fibres
Glass breaking
Glass reconstruction
Paint - microscopy and solubility
Examination of striations on thin plastic films
2D and 3D footwear marks
Fingerprint enhancement and identification
Suffice to say...
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