Biological Sciences (UG): Year One Academic Representative

Candidates

Samanvi Kuchi

Hey BioFam! I'm Samanvi (or Sam for short).First off — you’ve made it here. At Imperial. Studying Biological Sciences. That’s no small thing! Whether you’ve spent hours in labs wondering if your pipette hates you, or questioned if you actually belong here (spoiler: you do), take a second to appreciate how far you’ve come. I’m Samanvi, and I’m running for Academic Rep because ...

Rae Tang

Hello everyone! I’m Rae! I’m running for Year Academic Representative because I want to help you — talking to a rep is an approachable way to voice your concerns, especially when navigating this new environment. As a reserved person who developed my own confidence over the past few years, I see you! If I am elected, I will reach out to as many people as possible, to ensure you are heard and any bu ...

Hijab Naqvi

Hey everyone, I'm Hijab (yes, my name is actually Hijab) and I'm running for Year Academic Rep because I love helping people out and getting questions answered, so you may have already seen me around doing that on the groupchat. I want to make sure that you can freely communicate any problems or concerns you have in relation to our studies this year, so if you want to pass on feedback I'll be easy to spot - usually ...

Lakshya Dave

Hey there! Are you sick and tired of your requests being completely forgotten about in the landslide of paperwork? It's a good thing that I will personally make sure that any concerns you have are dealt with to a satisfactory standard, and if they aren't then you get to yell at me :) I am trivially easy to find, contact, and talk to, which makes it mighty convenient to find me if you have any concerns/comments to d ...

Sisy Zou

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Naz Gorgun

Hi, I'm Naz —yes, you probably know me from our WhatsApp group chat— and I'm running to be your Academic Year Rep! We’re only a few weeks in, and many of us are still settling into Imperial, trying to get to know the new faces around us, especially international students like me who are adapting to a new country. I want to represent you, be the bridge between students and the department, and voice t ...

Edward Shine

Biological Sciences at Imperial College London is going to be a difficult course. It will be filled with a lot of late nights, library study sessions, and some unavoidable stress. For better or for worse, this is what we signed up for. What we did not sign up for is the stress and extra work that comes from having to deal with incomplete lecture slides, confusing organisation/time-tabeling, difficult to find rescour ...

Chloe Lin

Hello to all of you whose names I've already learned, and to those whose names I haven't! I’m Chloe, and I am running for academic year rep to improve our experience as first year students at Imperial. I first tried identifying important issues we might face: How should we connect high school knowledge to what we’re learning right now? How can we achieve independence in learning as college students? ...

Ylva Vareberg Paint

Hi everyone! My name is Ylva, and I am running for year one academic representative for biology students. Before writing this, I tried to figure out what policies and changes I wish to fulfil as your bio-rep. To be frank, I have only been here for 2.5 weeks, and I genuinely don’t know. I have come to realise that changing things according to what I want, is not my role anyway. As a representative, my main objec ...