Now on to the actual content (or "why is the uranium gone?")
Well, if nothing else, my midsemester exams are over. I can't really say that I'm too pleased with how everything has progressed in the past week or so. Even though the exams themselves weren't too difficult, I seem to still feel slightly uneasy about them.
Analytical Chemistry 1 - Why oh why did it take me so long to do the easy questions. I had the high-resolution MS read-out of the gas, so why did it take until the last 15 minutes of the exam to have the "Oh duh" moment and realise it was ethene? The remainder was moderately good - though I reaffirm my hatred of titration calculations. The tool of the non-existant titration devil they are!
Inorganic Chemistry 1 - Actually, this wasn't as bad as I expected. Name/draw a complex or two, a few multiple choice questions, etc. The crystal field splitting diagrams though sucked hard, despite having drawn such diagrams dozens of times previously...
Organic Chemistry 2 - Damn the synthesis of 1-naphthanaldehyde (or whatever it was called). Also damn the reasons why pyridine-n-peroxide is so good at allowing electrophilic aromatic substitutions at the C4 position - though I feel that I may have bullsh*tted my way through without too much trouble - as Ryan says, I'm the teacher's pet for this subject.
I was also particularly disappointed today - my good friend Ryan mentioned that information about an industrial traineeship had been posted on UTSOnline - a year of working at ANSTO, possibly with uranium ore/derivatives! I don't think I could have been more excited - alas, they only want students that have completed three years of a four year degree. Plus, for some strange reason most people I know have an aversion to even the mere thought of me being in proximity of uranium - in ore form or otherwise. Bastards.
Well, on to doing nothing for the next few hours. Hoorah!
Analytical Chemistry 1 - Why oh why did it take me so long to do the easy questions. I had the high-resolution MS read-out of the gas, so why did it take until the last 15 minutes of the exam to have the "Oh duh" moment and realise it was ethene? The remainder was moderately good - though I reaffirm my hatred of titration calculations. The tool of the non-existant titration devil they are!
Inorganic Chemistry 1 - Actually, this wasn't as bad as I expected. Name/draw a complex or two, a few multiple choice questions, etc. The crystal field splitting diagrams though sucked hard, despite having drawn such diagrams dozens of times previously...
Organic Chemistry 2 - Damn the synthesis of 1-naphthanaldehyde (or whatever it was called). Also damn the reasons why pyridine-n-peroxide is so good at allowing electrophilic aromatic substitutions at the C4 position - though I feel that I may have bullsh*tted my way through without too much trouble - as Ryan says, I'm the teacher's pet for this subject.
I was also particularly disappointed today - my good friend Ryan mentioned that information about an industrial traineeship had been posted on UTSOnline - a year of working at ANSTO, possibly with uranium ore/derivatives! I don't think I could have been more excited - alas, they only want students that have completed three years of a four year degree. Plus, for some strange reason most people I know have an aversion to even the mere thought of me being in proximity of uranium - in ore form or otherwise. Bastards.
Well, on to doing nothing for the next few hours. Hoorah!
posted by Unknown Chemist at 6:39 PM
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