Presentation day
Today is the first day of presentation for th 4thyear individual projects, I went and showed my support. There are some really interesting projects, ranging from developing products with reduced salt and no MSG, detecting milk damage, water treatment options investigation, and gluten free bread. Particularly, one of them was on detecting campylobacter on real time pcr. I know that girl quite well, she has repeated told me that food techi have vertially no background on campylobacter and PCR, so she had real trouble preparing her presentation for an audience who just didnt' have a clue.
Which come to a point, because I did, I knew what she was talkign about, admittedly not as good as Miss Hui-who-majors-in-biotech. But the point is... so what if they have no idea, in the food industry, unless if you end up doing some micro quality stuff, you'll probabily never run into basic bio methods such as PCR or what not. At days like this, I can't help but thinking if the choice I made 4 years ago was the right one.
Yesterday I had one of the most enjoyable lecture on ice cream. It was NOTHING like the version laurie gave us last year. Things that I had wondered about during his lecture and the field trip were now explained. They even went into details on the difference between premium ice cream and normal ice cream. And the lectuerer HAD a lot of experiences with ice cream and he could tell us a lot of standard practices based on his experience. It was really brilliant.
We had entire 4 weeks worth of lectures on colloids (sry this is gonna be a bit technical). The only thing that I've learn in Auckland was laurie's *cough* wonderful tables of different emulsifiers, and a chemmat lectuere mentioning things on laplace pressure. But what I got this year, was soooo much more indepth, and I can go on and on and on about this, but I will not bore you with the details.
My course coordinator half jokingly said to me on our 2nd meeting "didn't you wish you were here" I replied him "things would've been a lot different" and indeed it would've. I would not have many of the friends that i treasure, woudl've met Danny at all... so how can I say that things would've been better right?
All I am hoping is that I will be equipped with more food techi info that AU students lacks, and more general bio info that Massey students lacks, that makes me an unique, all-rounded food technologist that employers will want to hire!!! HIRE ME PLZ!!!!
Which come to a point, because I did, I knew what she was talkign about, admittedly not as good as Miss Hui-who-majors-in-biotech. But the point is... so what if they have no idea, in the food industry, unless if you end up doing some micro quality stuff, you'll probabily never run into basic bio methods such as PCR or what not. At days like this, I can't help but thinking if the choice I made 4 years ago was the right one.
Yesterday I had one of the most enjoyable lecture on ice cream. It was NOTHING like the version laurie gave us last year. Things that I had wondered about during his lecture and the field trip were now explained. They even went into details on the difference between premium ice cream and normal ice cream. And the lectuerer HAD a lot of experiences with ice cream and he could tell us a lot of standard practices based on his experience. It was really brilliant.
We had entire 4 weeks worth of lectures on colloids (sry this is gonna be a bit technical). The only thing that I've learn in Auckland was laurie's *cough* wonderful tables of different emulsifiers, and a chemmat lectuere mentioning things on laplace pressure. But what I got this year, was soooo much more indepth, and I can go on and on and on about this, but I will not bore you with the details.
My course coordinator half jokingly said to me on our 2nd meeting "didn't you wish you were here" I replied him "things would've been a lot different" and indeed it would've. I would not have many of the friends that i treasure, woudl've met Danny at all... so how can I say that things would've been better right?
All I am hoping is that I will be equipped with more food techi info that AU students lacks, and more general bio info that Massey students lacks, that makes me an unique, all-rounded food technologist that employers will want to hire!!! HIRE ME PLZ!!!!
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