I think it mostly went well, except for one impossible fucking problem with two para t-butyl groups. But it's over and done with now ( Read more... )

About my study buddy from UChicago, I have good news and bad news. The good news: it sounds like he's quitting the Adderall. Last I heard from him, he was crashing big time but was sticking with it. He apparently started taking them about 3 weeks ago, not realizing that they were addictive as hell, and then found out just in time ( Read more... )

I'm halfway through orgo. Goddamn, it's going by fast. Labs are going better than expected so far, exams not as good as I'd like but I'm working on that...

I'm looking more and more forward to going home in a month, despite the MCATs and the heat. Even if I have to spend most days just hanging around indoors avoiding the heat, and even if I'll ( Read more... )

I just had my exam, which I'm pretty sure went far better than I deserved to have it go. I tried going to sleep no less than three times last night (so I could wake up early and study) but was unsuccessful, and finally just went over to a friend's dorm to study (I later got an hour nap). It turns out we're pretty much perfect study partners because ( Read more... )

On the first count: I'm probably fucked for tomorrow.

On the second: walking back to my dorm, I spotted what appeared to be a bird of prey right on the front lawn of the graduate school of education, guarding something. As I approached, said bird didn't fly off, just kept wrestling whatever it was trying to get at. I finally stopped all of two feet ( Read more... )

My second orgo exam was on Monday. Long story short: I wasn't happy with my grade, but at least I scored above the class mean and median.

Lab was intense, now that we have two of them a week. It didn't help that my lab partner apparently dropped the course! Now I have a new lab partner, a nice enough guy who just graduated from Williams.

The weather ( Read more... )

orgo is eating my soul.

Fuck.

...in my case will be spent mostly studying for my first exam, and probably visiting briefly with fellow Tau-ite Lisa, who is coming down to Bah-ston for the weekend. Today was spent learning about HOMOs and LUMOs, which I understood surprisingly well considering I was running on less than 5 hours sleep. The reason? My laptop quasi-crashed last ( Read more... )

Your result for The What Middle Earth race do you belong to Test...
Wizard

You scored 0% Size & Strength, 65% Morality, 47% Aggression, and 71% Intelligence.


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I'm back in my dorm, chilling and waiting out a fierce and unending thunderstorm that started up about an hour ago. I actually took the shuttle back from Annenberg for a change instead of walking; for some reason, I'm a bit averse to possibly getting rain on my $300 or so worth of orgo textbooks. Due to lack of sleep last night, I probably won't ( Read more... )