I hate being a night owl by nature because it means I loathe waking up early. Unfortunately seeing as how I have a 9 AM class every day, I'm undergoing the slow process of going from "bed at whenever, up whenever" to "bed by midnight, up by 7 AM". I am getting OLD ( Read more... )

I'm posting, so pretty obviously I'm at work. In the middle of (another) DNA extraction too! I love placing tiny flowers into tubes and then crushing them until nothing is left except a light green liquid. Science! I work tomorrow too ( Read more... )

One of the perks of my job is that on days when I'm doing PCRs or running gels, 90% of my day is spent lounging around waiting for things to finish. I love getting paid to play around on the internet ( Read more... )

This is why I constantly say "fuck you" to finals week. Being up till 4 AM every night studying means I don't even feel remotely tired until about fifteen minutes from now, at which point I'll pass out. It's too bad I have to be up and out the door by 10 to get to EL by noon. I was planning on heading back up on Sunday, but unfortunately eight ( Read more... )

Hey guess who's at work for another four hours? I've been in about 18 hours the last two days, which is dangerous when you have a week until finals. Word of advice: Never, ever tell a grad student that "it doesn't matter what time you have to leave because you don't have plans tonight anyway". You will essentially be locked in the lab until you ( Read more... )

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ABSTRACT 1:

Chemical: (2,3,5-trichloro-[4]pyridyl)-malonic acid diethyl ester

Resource: I found it in a german book from 1903! Oh boy! Good thing I totally know german!

ABSTRACT 2:Chemical: 4-octyne-3,6-diol-2,7-bis(diethylamino)-3,6-dimethyl-(7Cl,8Cl ( Read more... )

Oh man, school is so much fun this semester. There's nothing I like more than to spend every waking moment thinking of chemistry. What's also cool is that now I get to start stressing out about my future! Oh joy.

Since I haven't really posted about it:

Biochemistry I: Yeah, this is my major right here. Holy shit is it hard. Remember those ( Read more... )

How come every old person (35+ years) in my classes has to ask dozens of pointless/obvious questions ("How did you get six Mbps there?" "...I added the two and the four, written right next to it." "Oh.") and make anecdotes related to the fact that they have children?

Oh genetics recitation why are you so useless and early in the morning

The fall semester is starting, hurrah. I have class 9-6 monday, 9-10 tuesday, 8-6 wednesday, and 9-1 friday. I work 10:30-5 tuesday, 9-5 thursday, 1-4 friday and 8-3 saturday. Joy oh joy ( Read more... )