our final VERY concentrated NMR tubes for our diamagnetic metal complexes. look how pretty!!
the long-awaited inside out 2 viewing! here we are dressed up as the emotions.
one of our final days in wet lab! check out the team benzyl trade mark on my collar. (don’t worry, we were all done for the day hence the lack of giant splash googles).
my favorite crystal photo! the snowflake-like formation is so cool, and the microscope is definitely one of my favorite instruments to use!
our first lock-in day for the paper. despite the smile, jenny and i desperately regretted not getting ramen like our teammate callen that whole night.
the recrystallization process featuring so many hues of pink and purple. albeit time consuming, it’s so fun and very rewarding to see all you “children” ready to crystallize!
so so many different languages. we completely covered this chalk board with everything we know from latin to calculus to french and so on.
a metal-complex-colored rainbow of a few of our final metal complexes. it is so satisfying to see all our hard work!
one of many photos from our college and career day! definitely one of my most memorable days from this program.
peeking into a greenhouse to see some greenery!! they are so interesting to see walking to the cpp every day!
one of our very first sunsets before we started to spend our evenings collaborating at the cpp until nightfall.
another pretty sunset. i always love our walks back to the dorms whatever time it is 🙂
from one of our p-set break walks, seeing the flowers and sitting on the steps of this building was the start of our very strong (covalent, you’d say) bonds.
our dorm gives a very beautiful view of the sky’s watercolor effect every time we wake up earlier enough to catch it (such as one our hot girl walks!)
another blurry sunset photo taken on the way back. to be honest, the campus has grown on me tremendously for its gorgeous sky.
the first night in the swosu villa as we like to call it. don’t be fooled, our beds are covered with collected blue blankets to save us for the freezing air con.
field trip!!! here, a collective of us grabbed matching light-up astronaut pens and cards to fuel our nertz addiction.
and to end it off, another sunset. this photo here almost encapsulates the feeling of a month of SSP already gone by. it’s bittersweet to see the cumulative joy and grief regarding our final days together, here, as a group of twelve very different yet very much all the same assortment of friends. every “last” has been devastating to announce, from an organic lecture to our final full week together. seeing our days transition from quiet, comfortable silence with the rotary evaporator or awaiting reactions to end into impassioned paper-writing and endless cascades of rushed thoughts and shared recollections of our time together has been integral to my perception of how quick and fickle six weeks really is. time here somehow flows as thick as syrup, which in all honesty i haven’t seen since we stopped going to breakfast long ago, and as quick as the flashes of lightning we saw from inside the cpp and huddled together as we ran back to the safety of what we’ve instinctively begun to call home. and to be honest, no random grouping of pictures saved in my phone nor superfluous wording can depict the memories, friendships, and experiences i have made over this month. and so, i think ill end it off here. partly because if i tried this blog post can never and honestly because i think that is for the sole participants of our homely program to cultivate in the time we have left and the forever we may have apart.
all my love,
maia
