Rules of the Lab

If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

When you don’t know what you’re doing, do it neatly.
Experiments must be reproducible, they should fail the same way each time.
First draw your curves, then plot your data.
Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined. [...]

So round one of chemistry coursework is over and it was a disaster (refluxing a compound in an hour does not happen without a lot of tears and burning of things)…how will round 2 fare? Find out this evening
Update: It went fine. There was no banging, no screaming, no crying and better yet [...]

Yes. I am sadly still alive, anyways. Quick update so far: 
What has happened so far:

Overslept this morning by 45 minutes.
Got Havaianas (but they make me look like I’m support the Aussies).
The speaker on science didn’t come this morning.
Had my personal statement completely culled but on the bright side it was done in a very fun way.
Realised [...]

Today has been a pretty good day. My chemistry exams went well in my opinion and I got free smoothies on my way home. More in detail below.
This morning started out with me having a panic attack over chemistry. For those of you who know me, you will know I want to study chemistry in [...]

I’m fed up, annoyed even with an Uncle I know. Their family have decided to take charge of what I want to do in university and are slowly brainwashing my mother from agreeing with the subject I want to do (chemistry) to something more maths based (ie: Economics and maths). I of course went no [...]

Okay we’ll start off with the first topic which leads straight into the second topic. Today is a saturday. Today I woke up at 7am naturally ’cause I couldn’t sleep and my throat was extremely sore and flemmy. Anyways, to try and combat the soreness and ickiness so I could sleep I went and took [...]

I’m half tempted to go off and curl up in a corner and sleep, but alas I now cannot do that after getting a shock to the system when I saw my chemistry teacher stroll through the door in crutches. We got told last Tuesday that we probably wouldn’t see her till the end of [...]

Got to revise for chemistry after doing my maths before I can sleep. Damn it.

First off. Apologies for not blogging in the past five days. Had so much work and I kept forgetting to blog. Okay now on to the post.
Today was an interesting day. I learnt several things and here they are in order.
1. Learnt in fact I could do an M1 past paper easily if I actually [...]

Okay so Imperial still hasn’t gotten back to me. Well I’m grateful UCL did. I spoke to the person who organised it today. Think I caught him as he was leaving. Said I was a quick responder. Anyways, he said to me to send a copy of the cv and that he had to speak [...]