Pawel Swietach, Christ Church, 3rd Year Secondary School, Warsaw, Poland. How the brain works -I could go on and on. To the more ambitious undergraduate, perhaps more appealing is the idea that you will finish studying physiology with more questions than you had before you started. You may be discouraged from applying to study physiology because of a few myths about the subject. We are not medicine drop-outs, nor physiotherapists in training.
Physiology is very much an experimental science.
Oxford is the place for top scientists, top labs, top equipment, and top libraries. Through joining several societies, I've made friends with people from all over the world. Some people don't understand what 'solidarity' means - but it is a word that is so special for Poles. Modern physiology studies the whole organism and how it metabolises, respires, reproduces, develops and integrates all its activities. It is the study of the fundamental mechanisms of life in the context of the whole, living animal.