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Journal Some Woman's Journal: So it begins again...Woo! 9

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When I first met you two, I thought you were roommates because there's no way that two random strangers could fight this much. -Lab group member #3

Yes, lab group member #2 and I have a mutually antagonistic relationship. It works. It keeps us on our toes.

We had our first lab on Wednesday (professor sent the assignment out in august and told us to be prepared to go on the first day of classes.) He believes in the Socratic method. This is why he wouldn't tell us that the equipment was set up wrong when we arrived in the lab and it took us one and a half hours to calibrate the thing. Then we had to give a presentation yesterday on our plans for the next lab period. To quote the professor "That was...very...very poor."

This is going to be a loooooong semester. Either that or somebody is getting a distillation column up in a rather discomforting locale.

Well, at least my living arrangements kick ass. Perhaps I will post pictures sometime. When the DSL is hooked up.

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  • Our Chem proffessor paired us off the first lab period, and she tried to make it a guy and girl where possible. As luck would have it, I ended up with the cutest girl in the class as my partner, which I thought was great, until I learned she was quite the clutz. I bet we broke $10,000 worth of beakers, test tubes, graduated cylinders, and pipets the first year. The prof never really became upset with her, until she dropped our lab final unknown and it shattered on the floor.

    We worked well together despi

    • Ah... breaking expensive equipment. That would be me. I can still distinctly recall the merry tinkle of a pair of matched quartz cells shattering against the floor.
      • Did you do in any separatory funnels? You wouldn't think they would be so expensive... :)
        • Do they still make you rinse everything off with rivers of acetone? I'm not a big freaker-out over chemical warnings (a decade of reading the warning labels on EtOH and NaCl have eliminated that) but inhaling clouds of acetone can't be good for you.

          I'm also not thrilled about the isopropanol-based stuff my wife sprays on the tub and curtain after every shower. The tub is certainly whiter than when I was single but...

    • I think if we break any of this stuff, we will just be shot on the spot. Luckily it's pretty hard to break the equipment here. :) It's a chemical engineering lab, so we have pilot plant sized equipment with which we do experiments. My group was drying pieces of particle board in a big circulating air oven this week. Next week we get to play with 100-foot tall distillation column. I hope I don't mke it explode. =0)
    • My Physics prof did the same thing. He tries to play matchmaker in his labs. He'll pair up people he thinks would hit it off. It worked for me I guess, my lab partner and I were together for a little over a year. I wonder if he's still doing that....

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