Archive for July, 2012
Some music playing in the lab today
My mentor is such a joker. As a way to enjoy my lab experience more, one of the grad students offered to play one of the burned CDs accumulated from past and current lab members, of my preference. I saw The Magnetic Fields and thought, that might be good to listen to while working (after a song suggestion, “All My Little Words” from my sister). After he put it into the stereo to play, he left for the day. Of course, my mentor then (jokingly) comments on the music: “Way for Tioga [the grad student] to leave us with shitty music to listen to.” My response: “Hey, I chose this music!” His response? “Oh then, this is pretty good music!” Big grin on his face to hide his previous words. I say: “Oh, you say that now.” And he just laughs. Thanks, Rob -_-
Progress has been made – day 6 (yes, undergrad in the lab on a saturday)
Set up another hydroboration reaction. I’m almost at the point when I can use the glove box with no supervision (but it’s been a few months, so why can’t I get it down already??). How nice of my grad student mentor to come in to help me with the reaction (and mostly to make sure I don’t burn the lab down!), albeit I showed up two hours before he did, believing that he would arrive at the same hour (9:30-10AM) as a normal weekday. This was definitely not the case, so I spent ~2 hours studying in the warm sunny weather (on a nearly deserted campus). After setting up the reaction, I went shopping at Ralphs and bought some lovely champagne. First time I purchased alcohol by myself! Then I made mimosas and drank them by my lonesome self. Surprisingly, I didn’t fall asleep!
Something fishy is going on here…
and its smell is floating through the apartment. Is it from the salmon I just bought, or could it be the triethylamine? Whatever it is, it stinks! Oh well, back to entertaining myself with these GRE vocab words -_- and this great cross-coupling editorial :] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jo301069c.
Studying for the GRE requires some good music, of course…
so what do I currently have playing through my head? Oh, maybe some Beck, Cake, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Interpol, The Eagles, Dirty Heads, Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, and Matisyahu. Not much change from my previous music post, but it’s becoming a great distraction. Oh, and I also spent most of today watching Avatar: The Last Airbender rather than studying….oops.
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