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practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2007-06-01 05:45 pm

Chem Stuff

Two things - one, I managed to pull off an epic, epic save in lab yesterday morning after making an exceptionally stupid mistake and accidently dumping half of my synthesized compound on the bench. 70% yield in the end, and almost spot-on purity. And two, the massive number of hours I spent studying for today's midterm paid off, and I ended up with an 88%, which would have been even better if I hadn't made one or two stupid mistakes. I'm going to have to put more hours in for the final, but I'm feeling a lot better now. Yana and I were supposed to hang today, but she hasn't come online at all, so I'll probably just head home and play DDS1 some or something.

I had a minor scare last night - server went down, as did the server for my webhost's main page - turns out a fiber optic line in the data center got cut accidently during some construction. So no harm done in the end.

[identity profile] ext_9476 (from dreamwidth.org) 2007-06-03 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Shit man.

Lab accidents like that used to give me a heart attack.

[identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org 2007-06-03 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
There was a fair amount of me swearing under my breath, but suggestions from my TA and the girl across the bench from me saved me. The combined strategy was to suck up what I could with a dropper, and then getting some cotton wool to wipe up the rest, and then rinsing it with one of the solutions we were using. It was all going to be filtered and purified anyway, so it worked out okay.