My scales keep telling me, I am getting fatter, so the destiny arranged a workout. So very thoughtful of her. Running up and down and around the Chemistry faculty all day long - for free! Or if I considered that I was still doing my job, I was even paid for it. Unfortunately, I wasn't informed about my destiny's plans and thought today would be a ( Read more... )

It's been almost a year since I started doing the doctorate and so far I have been the one and only Ph.D student in the work-group of my supervisor. With all the benefits and side-effects of him asking me ten times a day, if I already have some new results to show him, or if I already did that one thing, or if I mind doing this another thing (just ( Read more... )

Quite ill ._." Again. Why can't we just skip the same procedure every year when it gets colder?
(Why on Connichi? Why in the week, when I've got some measurements time? Why is our planet that far from the sun?)


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[sorry for the double entry, I'm a "Trottel"!]

The last few weeks I spent in a Radiochemistry lab - Radio as in Radioactivity not as in walkie-talkie (sadly... My dad made a radio set once. I'm well versed in frequency calculation and waves interaction with material, but I have no idea how to actually build a radio ._." Maybe I should develop a ( Read more... )

The last few weeks of student-life par excellence. The last exams, labs, protocols, even more exams, presentations ( Read more... )

No, I’m not dead. Despite spending lots of time in the same room with quite sinister tombstones. Well, ex-tombstones. That’s what happens when a research-group is full of creative ideas but poor on financial support. They needed something big and stable, something to dampen the vibrations from the other rooms (which would disturb the measurements ( Read more... )

I still have a few minutes left to congratulate you on a Happy
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Sorry for the long absence - The university is eating up all my free time and the constant fever about 37.6 °C (~ 99.7 F) keeps me away from the Internet at rare leisure times. (savouring audio books or sleeping seems more appealing at those evenings.)

My routine now consists of dealing with triphosgene (it's almost the same as phosgene, yeah, that ( Read more... )

I'm a bit exhausted. Liar.
To tell  the truth, I'm really dead tired. Maybe I have no stamina or it's too dark and misty outside or maybe I just hate organic synthesis and lab-practice.
Whatever.
The first master semester is the worst - it's getting better afterwards. And don't tell me otherwise, 'cause it's the only hope I have.

Shameless pimping from ( Read more... )

My microwave exploded, I have a sore throat and some fever, and the first Master-of-Science semester is anything but structured.
My schedule is full but due to our new, extraordinarily confusing university catalog (Studienordnung) I can't shake the feeling, I'm still missing some important lectures. And I hate lab-work. I'm a theorist not a ( Read more... )