hey kids ( Read more... )

4 UBC, 4 UBC Alumni, and one random "hey, do you guys need an extra player?" from Whistler formed the first UBCOB Ravens team to ever play in a woman's division, competing in the SFU Seven's tournament this weekend ( Read more... )

Chloroform (CHCl3) dissolves plastic.

This is of particular importance when running a reaction in a plastic petri dish.

I like the word petri.

I find my prof to be conducting herself rather unprofessionally via email, although in a fashion fitting to her 'character' that I've become acquainted with over the term. Given the extenuating circumstances, I guess I expected a little less "I don't have time to deal with this" and a little more "you poor thing, what can I do to make this easier ( Read more... )

how is it possible 2 g of sm yielded 40 mg less product than 0.1 g sm?

This Saturday is the last Varsity home game of the year. So all you peoples who said they wanted to come watch some rugby, it's your last chance of the season to do so at UBC. Kickoff eleven thirty, Wolfson fields (across from old B-lot). It's also my last Varsity home game ever, unless weird shit goes down and I stick around Masters.

ubc 26 - stanford 17, 80 minute game (but the score doesn't reflect how close the game was before the last ten minutes ( Read more... )

hi. uhm, well, yeah. just had a giggle fit in the kitchen. over... i don't know what. but today: game on game off? downtown santa barbara. some crazy thrifting. game on. ubc 53 ucsb 0. might be concussed. and then dininer and an an eighties party later. keg and then plastic forties of rum and vodka. 15 down to hte beacha nd skinny ( Read more... )

hi guys. posting from USCB (illa vista? or something, basically student ghetto right off campus). still a little drunk, 'kegger' hosted by men's team, sketchy, think they might be trying to get us hungover and playing worse for the game tomorrow night. meh. SLAUGHTERED UCLA last night, 17 tries to 1. can't really tell you the real score because ( Read more... )

i've "lost" my product in about 3L of aqueous. what i've so far (over the last three hours) managed to extract i just dropped in the water bath (oh, the humanity). while mopping up that mess, my column hath runneth over. the fractions i have collected have about 4 different spots in them by tlc (basically, this means the whole thing is bunk ( Read more... )