Posts from February 2007

Feb 12, 2007

What I learned in organic chemistry today

Not only is my professor an intellectual giant in the fields of chemistry and biology, his lectures provide me with indispensable artistic inspiration.

Feb 10, 2007

What I got in the mail today

It’s a recruitment ad for an organization even more illustrious than my school. Wanna guess what it is? (Hint: it now comes with a video game called “America’s Army”) Decide the way you want to serve. The training you want. And the direction you want to go. The stylistic innovations you see in the prose (More…)

Feb 9, 2007

Biology students have OCD

Biochemistry lab work is unstimulating. The only reason we haven’t gotten robots or monkeys to do all the pipetting (using a glorified eye-dropper to meticulously measure out really small amounts of liquids) is because it’s cheaper to just get undergrads to do it. I burn more neurons reading Calvin and Hobbes on a summer afternoon. (More…)

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