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Updates
I plan to update this journal more than... incredibly infrequently. As a testament to my intentions I am posting this. In short: Things are good, lots of things are interesting, and lots of things are keeping me busy. More to come later. -
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It is very summer-y out these days and I appreciate the weather. I'm currently taking BIOLOGY 173 at U of M, an intro biology lab class. It isn't terribly difficult and I haven't really learned much that I didn't know beforehand so I'm not particularly thrilled to have to take it. I have only three more meetings of the class, though ( Read more... ) -
My goodness how the time has flewn...
It is overwhelmingly clear that my freshman year of college is coming to a close. This is, quite frankly, ridiculous, for multiple reasons. The most pressing is the fact that teaching establishments have decided that compressing examinations of my learning for the semester into a minimum amount of time is the best way to do so. I appreciate the ( Read more... ) -
Noble aspirations
Does HTML code work in here when it's set on HTML mode?
It's that time of the semester again! Schedule planning! As always I took this as a time to look ahead and behind me and see what I'm interested in and if I like the direction my classes and other choices are taking me. In short, the answer is yes, I like my classes, my plan, and my life ( Read more... ) -
Rough
The upcoming weeks are busy, if not in reality, then in perceived busy-ness. In the next 16 days I will have 2 tests, a lab report, 2 hearty chemistry assignments, 2 stats homework assignments 2 or 3 bio problem sets, a spanish presentation, a spanish paper? nobody's sure when that is happening, UROP app to do (again, because the stupid site timed ( Read more... ) -
Events of note:
I biked from ann arbor to my house yesterday, a total distance of ~30 miles. The route was not too bad to follow. The hardest part was when I got into farmington hills/Novi the roads started sucking horribly, sidewalks were reappearing, but erratically, and drivers were becoming more ruthless and frightening. I was quite tired by the end of it ( Read more... ) -
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So I had my bike held by the lock with its rear wheel off the ground and I was trying to make my gears happy again and Jordan Banks, a guy I know who worked in a bike shop senior year came by and was like "hey what are you up to?" and he then promptly, expertly, and almost magically, made my shifting work like a sweet sweet dream. It was fantastic ( Read more... ) -
Status report
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I just got back from chem lab. It was... trying. We were supposed to prepare and run a column chromatography of two compounds we'd gotten ready the week before. The set-up sounds fairly straight forward: put glass wool in the column, put sand on it, put silica on that, put sand on that. but the glass wool step is tricky. It has to be wadded up ( Read more... ) -
Winter 2009 has begun
Oh dear, it's been a while since I've posted on here. All my end-of-semester things got wrapped up fine last semester. I got good grades and had a lovely winter break ( Read more... )