Application time

[coeus559]

Well, I just heard about this community, and after spending a bit of time looking through some entries, I figured it wouldn't hurt to apply myself...

Comments

Yes

[sauvagerie]

...although is it just me or are the humanities nerds getting sadly outnumbered 'round here?

Re: Yes

[dancingdrew]

word. Where'd we go?

Re: Yes

[chemchick]

UH OH. holla_nerds MIGHT HAVE TO MAKE A COMEBACK!

Re: Yes

[dancingdrew]

BIZZATCH DON'T BE FRONTIN, THE IAMBS WILL TAKE YOU DOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN

Yes

[dancingdrew]

I know someone who goes to Brandeis, but he's probably on the opposite end of the campus doing theatre stuff all the time.

Re: Yes

[coeus559]

Well, I actually get myself involved in musical theatre, because I can play my various instruments in the pits. Last month, I played clarinet and bassoon in the pit for "The Pajama Game". I've met a bunch of theatre people, so perhaps I might know your friend?

-Alex

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[dancingdrew]

Josh? Josh Simmons? The most incredibly gay man you might ever meet? (And his mom's in denial.)

Re: Yes

[coeus559]

Yes, yes, I know him. He was Pseudolus in last year's production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum".

-Alex

Yep

[metricula]

Yes for the centrifuge pic. I work in a bio lab and we don't use googles. Just gloves so we don't get infected with crazy bacteria or contaminate the sweetpotato DNA samples.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

[princessfuzzbal]

Where are all the other nerdy guys like you??? It seems that you are few and far between :( I want more, at least 10 that I can see/ work on homework with on a regular basis.

Re: YES!!!!!!!!!!!

[counterword]

We are in colorado doing labwork day and night.

Re: YES!!!!!!!!!!!

[princessfuzzbal]

Hrm. I might take a trip out there to some labs..... ^_^

yes

[shirou]

I'm always amused when a chemist says that his/her favorite class is quantum chemistry (or thermal chemistry). I always wonder, if that's what you like most, why not study physics?

Re: yes

[coeus559]

For your quantum physics class, though, how in depth do you go into chemistry? We started with electrons, but now we've worked our way to molecules and soon we're going to be discussing spectroscopy. I don't know what the quantum physics class is like here at Brandeis, but I don't think they go into as much detail in spectroscopy as we are going to go.
Also, I work in a biophysical chemistry lab - we play with a laser and shoot it at proteins. :)

-Alex

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[shirou]

I took both semesters of physical chemistry in addition to my physics classes and there are certainly differences between the two, no doubt about it. My quantum mechanics (physics) class focused much more on fundamental quantum theory and was more mathematically intensive. We did cover spectroscopy, but not to the same depth as in the chemistry class, where it was one of the major topics. Another significant difference I noticed is the discussion of bonding in p-chem, which is fairly important since I don't think it's possible to grasp covalent bonding if you don't know about molecular orbitals - "sharing electrons" is so vague. Bonding is not discussed at all in physics. Hell, we're afraid to talk about atoms larger than hydrogen. Molecules are way out there. ^^

I don't really think that most physical chemists should be physicists, by the way. I'm just sore that you guys seem to outnumber us so! =P