Rotational Mechanics - The Physics of Spinning things
From the fan on your ceiling, the wheels on your bike, to the planet Earth you’re residing on. Many things around you are going round and round. Often times, when initiated into the field of classical mechanics, we focus so much on motion that moves you from point A to point B, that we lose sight of the type of motion that whirls. Rotational mec...
An Introductory Guide to Graph Sketching
Do you want to understand why the atoms that make up the universe, act the way they are around each other and not jumble up into a pile and collapse into a black hole? Do you want to understand how people make choices in how they spend their money? When asking these questions, the answers might come in the form of mathematical functions that rar...
Oxbridge Blueprints - Guide to Crushing the Oxbridge STEM Interview
The Oxbridge interviews are one of the main criteria for selecting successful applicants. For Cambridge applicants, If you apply from select countries overseas, you will have one interview. If you fly to the UK in non-pandemic years, you will get 2 interviews. For Oxford applicants, interviewers are more rare, but applicants who do get them usua...
Oxbridge Blueprints - The STEM Oxbridge Personal Statement
A STEM Oxbridge Personal Statement has a very different focus compared to other personal statements. By the end of this post I hope to demystify the process on creating a personal statement that can aid your application to Oxbridge. There will be three websites from Cambridge and Oxford that I have referenced in the making this post. The links t...
Oxbridge Blueprints - Roadmap to an Oxbridge Offer
A childhood dream, the prestige, or just for the lovely campus. There are many reasons anyone might want to be an Oxbridge student. A year ago, I was like you, striving to find my way into the college gates. And just like you, I was lost on what to do to boost my chances. Thankfully, I managed to secure an offer to study Engineering at the Unive...