Hello, it’s-a-me a Mario, again writing a blog post. This time we have an exciting time to write about. With the first annual synth chem talent show and screening of our safety videos.
But before any of that exciting stuff went under way there was lab. Lab was a little different today in that it involved no actual lab work but instead processing of lab data for our metal complexes. In a way it’s a bit representative of the final stretch and more so because the first draft of our research paper was due just the day prior. We learned to work up our Cyclic Voltammetry, UV-Vis, and Magnetic Moment data but since my complex gave no useful data for magnetic moment I pretty much just did UV-Vis and CV. Instead of getting to put on my lab coat I got to sit at a chair and work on Excel for 3 and a half hours. More representative of the boring parts of being a scientist I guess.
After that we had some Mexican food for lunch and I must say that eating salsa that was actually spicy was really nice. The carne asada tacos were also decent and took me back home for a brief while I tried big red soda for the first time and hated it, cinnamon flavored soda doesn’t sound good nor is it good in practice. Post lunch was laying around in bed waiting to go to the movie theater to watch Inside Out 2.
We all loaded on to a van and headed for the movie theater. Overall Inside Out 2 was a good movie and I give it a rating of 8.2/10. Where I got that metric from is unclear it’s simply the most appropriate number for the movie that popped into my head. Will not give any spoilers even though it’s been out for a while but I liked the new emotions introduced. I’m sure lots of feel like anxiety is in the driver’s seat of our brains. Took some post movie photos and headed back to home base.
Then was a bit more resting and working on my orgo psets until dinner. Dinner was Italian food from a place we’ve eaten from a couple of times. It’s good, I’ve come around to liking the bread a lot more I used to think it was a bit stiff.
After that we had our exciting talent show went under way. What better way to start off the night than with my team the Allylcorns going on stage and giving everyone our beautiful rendition of tequila. We killed it except for very end where we all forgot the single lyric. After that we’re several, several, talents from people much more talented than myself. There were two great flute performances, a cool film from Arkansas, really really good art pieces, Romeo and Juliet, a half rap half Gordon Ramsey impression, balloon sword making, and our esteemed director Ms. Dunn stealing the show by writing down the periodic table from memory in under 2 minutes. After the slew of talents we all sat down for a viewing of our homemade lab safety videos. They were all great, lots of production quality with all of them. But I do admit my teams was the best.
To end off the performances and viewing we all congratulated Ms. Dunn for aging, that is to say we celebrated her birthday with a song and some cupcakes.
Thereafter we had a sword fighting tournament with lots of dramatic cinematic and our TA’s stealing the win just like they did in assassins :(.
Back in the dorms we all had ourselves a little ramen and card game night. Tried seafood ramen. It was good but I would not buy it again.
That about wraps up the day. Very fun heavy day today. Tomorrow starts the 10 day countdown to the end of Synth Chem SSP. I’ve enjoyed every moment here so far.
