personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
Sep 22nd 2004nerd alert
Finished the first draft of the paper. At last. No idea how many changes my advisor’s going to want, but at least now I’m editing instead of writing from scratch – even when that turns into rewriting a paragraph, it’s amazing how much easier that *seems*.
Sep 18th 2004nerd alert
Well, not *evil*, exactly. Just a bit brain-dead. Specifically, the “default” settings for charts, which look
Sep 18th 2004heart
I feel old. At MCGrads last night, I realized that entering grad students were sophomores in high school when I finished
Sep 8th 2004heart & nerd alert
Just a day. The experiment this morning (that I spent all of yester– okay, the half of yesterday that I actually
Sep 3rd 2004laughter & nerd alert
Poor results and experiments that fail often get blamed on “lab gremlins”. (Exact term probably varies.)
Sep 3rd 2004heart & nerd alert
Group meeting went well, got some good suggestions for pulling different stress features out of the data, got to do lots