The absolute highlight of all the experimental protocols I had to correct during my tutoring phase.

The students had to make a linear regression. To put it simple (if not very scientific): they had to join the dots into a line in the most sensible way. The result was very creative.


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The last few weeks were a bit stressful, so I neglected all the internet and switched to a numb autopilot-program. My mind tends do go blissfully blank, when I have reached a certain level of tiredness. Thank you, evolution, for keeping me sane (if utterly boring) during the hard times :D ( Read more... )

[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... )

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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Following the soppy V-Day entry: friends are love.
Sorry for making myself so scarce lately. The university is to blame. Mea culpa.

Well, some fellow student and I, we had a sushi & cinema evening this week (and learning! We have to write an article together, also: King's Speech 5/5 stars *g*) and she brought some sugar for cooking..

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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... )

Best compliment ever: "Would you like to do your master thesis in our research group as well?"

<3<3<3

But since it'll take me a few more years, in the meanwhile Prof B. offered me a job as his research assistant in the group! I'm not sure if I can manage both scientific research and studying in the next winter semester (lots of labs x_x"), but I'd ( Read more... )

"The thing Jayne loves about zombies is that they're easy [...]
Sure, it'd get boring if they hung around too long - the things are so slow they're like a target for bitty babies holding their very first guns - but sometimes, a man just likes kick back, relax, and shoot holes in a few heads. "

Can you imagine a better working day then hearing this ( Read more... )

stage fright
-> NOUN: Acute nervousness associated with performing or speaking before an audience.

Never thought it would affect me.
I mean, all I have to do is to stand up and explain (loud and clear) a highly complex theme in front of round hundred students and a dozen of  Professors...

And as if it's not enough, my own Prof asked me, if I can play ( Read more... )