Questions I actually heard while waiting for my car to be inspected:

[mechanic on the phone]  "Yes, we replace water pumps.  What kind of vehicle is it?...  Ok, sir, but what kind of minivan?"

[girl about my age talking to her mother]  "Can they actually clock you if your speedometer doesn't work?... I'll just tell [the cop] that the speedometer's ( Read more... )

So we were learning about thin layer chromatography in biochem lab today, which is basically where you take a plate of silica gel, put your mixture of compounds and one end and pass a solvent over it.  The basic theory is that some components of your compound are going to stick better to the gel, while others would rather stay in the solvent, ( Read more... )

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of shoveling a space for myself in the driveway.  However, it is much more fun to watch the guys do it for me!

I feel so much better now. It was a rough week, and although the past two days have been really emotional, at least there's some closure now. It's like I've just been able to let out this big sigh of relief and the proverbial weigh has been lifted. I'm by no means "over it," but I can definitely see that things are going to get back to normal.

Try going downstairs and asking the guys if any of them have a wrench bigger than yours. There's no unawkward way to phrase that question.

Trying not to scream... someone is driving me crazy ( Read more... )

I can read the book like 10 times and still not have any clue what's going on. I always think I'm doing a good job studying, because I'll make flashcards (when possible) and read all of the chapters in the book, including the figure legends), and I still manage to barely pass the tests ( Read more... )

Apparently people were getting the wrong message from my last entry. I meant it as more of a funny story than a whiny complaint. I just thought it was amusing that after he repeated it to himself a couple times, and I repeated it to him, he still didn't understand what was wrong with what he said, not to mention that RPI is our rival school, so ( Read more... )

I was on the phone with my dad today asking what he wants for Christmas, and he was like, "I dunno... does RPI have anything neat in the gift shop?" I asked him to repeat what he said, and he was like "anything neat?" I then told him to think about the entire sentence, and he couldn't figure it out. Finally, I was like, "Well, maybe Mark (my ( Read more... )