Royal Society of Chemisty

ticklemylemon

Is anyone a member? Is it worth joining?

Woodward

Yea its well worth joining. You get a magazine every month and after you graduate you get to put AMRSC after your name. There are a lot of web resources available to you and it looks great on a CV/ funding proposal. IIRC you can get a discount if you pay for a 3 year subscription

ticklemylemon

ah sheer, ill give it a go only 17 pounds anyways :cool:

dirtyden

ticklemylemon wrote: »

Is anyone a member? Is it worth joining?

It is relatively cheap and you do get a magazine with an occasionally interesting article.

I am getting chartered by the RSC through work, but to be honest its hardly worth the while (it is not costing me any real time and effort and it was at my manager's suggestion). For a chemist being chartered or a member of a society is of no real benefit. Noone will ever ask you at a job interview are you chartered. We seem to be pretty distinct from a lot of other similar professions that way.

discus

I think the membership is quite good, is you have an interest in chemistry in general. Info on talks, discounts on books and their monthly publication ChemistryWorld is very good.

tatabubbly

Can you join if your a graduate whos not working at the moment but wants to keep up to date?

Woodward

tatabubbly wrote: »

Can you join if your a graduate whos not working at the moment but wants to keep up to date?

yup

tatabubbly

Thanks woodward! Doing it online now!

ticklemylemon

hmm.. i got my package thingy today.. but i cant seem to log in on the website... or am i doing it wrong???

aelune

Make sure you enter in your membership number. Your default password will be your date of birth. Read it carefully, I remember I had some trouble when I first joined too but it was only a case of knowing WHERE on the site to properly login.

ticklemylemon

aelune wrote: »

Make sure you enter in your membership number. Your default password will be your date of birth. Read it carefully, I remember I had some trouble when I first joined too but it was only a case of knowing WHERE on the site to properly login.

would it be possible for you to paste the link? coz that website is sooo hard to figure out :mad:

ticklemylemon

how long does it take to get the magazine??? i subscribed about a month ago and still havent received it /

Oregano_State

Interesting! I've actually heard really good things about this. I'm not sure if it's the same society, but my gf told me about her former classmate from the states, who got offered a very good job by having his CV on file with either the RCSI or the ACS, can't remember now which one.

He was doing postgraduate medicine at the time, but dropped out to take the money was so good. He didn't even have to apply.