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i got a chemical lab at work i some time play with chemical. i feel like a mad scientist. not quite geeky but its a step in the right direction 
Being a geek is great I love it, I love science and engineering and it may be my career, well, at least the next 4 long years of my life are built around it.
I love it, I love science and engineering and it may be my career, well, at least the next 4 long years of my life are built around it.
We were like that in sixth form, basically had the lab we could do anything we wanted to before/after school for about 6 weeks whilst doing out "big" project, without supervision, was such fun compared to the mundane stuff you do before then - I think that's why a lot of people feel they hate science, especially chemistry.
I do Chem Eng at Uni so we have labs, but it's bigger stuff and they won't let me play Last week I use a manometer for the first time.
I do Chem Eng at Uni so we have labs, but it's bigger stuff and they won't let me play
Last week I use a manometer for the first time.
Should we ask??KirstyTL said:
I got conc. nitric acid on my poor lab coat, now missing half the arm and a jumper when I had to rip it off and soak it all in water (nitric acid being the second most corrosive and dangerous acid you can use in schools)
Issues? Do tell....(if you want)....!
Chemical Engies aren't much liked, people blame them for everything yet without us, we wouldn't have a huge amount from food to oil, kind of important you must admit! As my professor says "I created the problems, now it's up to your generation to fix them" lol
It is good fun! We had to have a full school evacuation when something was dropped (I do not for the life of me remember, but it had similar clouding and toxicity as bromine) and we had to make a run for it and smash the firealarm glass LOL. It was always our class setting the alarm off, 4 times in one year was the record Our teacher was the head of sixth form, an Oxford grad and one of the authors of our course, hence he knew what he was talking about and always pushed us to the edge. It was also the cleverest class in the school, 5 of us were Oxxbridge triers, 1 a vet and the other a medic so we were always pushed in all ways.
Sorry, rambling, I miss sixth form and I miss chemistry
Chemical Engies aren't much liked, people blame them for everything yet without us, we wouldn't have a huge amount from food to oil, kind of important you must admit! As my professor says "I created the problems, now it's up to your generation to fix them" lol
It is good fun! We had to have a full school evacuation when something was dropped (I do not for the life of me remember, but it had similar clouding and toxicity as bromine) and we had to make a run for it and smash the firealarm glass LOL. It was always our class setting the alarm off, 4 times in one year was the record
Our teacher was the head of sixth form, an Oxford grad and one of the authors of our course, hence he knew what he was talking about and always pushed us to the edge. It was also the cleverest class in the school, 5 of us were Oxxbridge triers, 1 a vet and the other a medic so we were always pushed in all ways. Sorry, rambling, I miss sixth form and I miss chemistry
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my science teacher made fireworks, and ppoured nail varnish remover over the desk and set it alight!!! all good fun
mrs hughs also set light to her hair with a leaky broken bunsen burner. ahh those were the days.
(EDIT: maybe i should explain, the bunsen wouldnt light, so the gas was escaping, she got all angry with the student, told him off, said "this is the way to do it", lit a match and BOOM!!!)
mrs hughs also set light to her hair with a leaky broken bunsen burner. ahh those were the days.
(EDIT: maybe i should explain, the bunsen wouldnt light, so the gas was escaping, she got all angry with the student, told him off, said "this is the way to do it", lit a match and BOOM!!!)
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We were using gels developed by chemical engineers for cell culture biochem purposes- we had different views on what "has to retain it's integrity" meant. Communication was an issue, also we were more focused on getting some useful results rather than publishing another paper unlike the chem eng dep. grr. oh well twas all good fun and in the end i did my own chemical engineering anyway! yay. better than watching cells do...nothing.
We have to cut up rats in biology this year
I hate dead things, i had to go outside when everyone was doing a heart disection
Ah well, we're nice people really, we build nice big oil refineries to feed cars, make toothpaste come out stripey and make sure your clothes get cleaned properly. It is also the highest earning branch of engineering and the one most likely to put me in a management position soon after graduating, the PhD oppotunities are great if you don't mind working in the oil fields of the middle east aswell Not that the money has any bearing on my choice of course!
Lora; don't tell Dave! If i had an affinity towards biology I guess I would have gone into medicine, I just don't like it though Too much learning, nothing is logical, I mean the fact that you get quarks and leptons in physics is just so obvious! Honest.
Not that the money has any bearing on my choice of course! Lora; don't tell Dave! If i had an affinity towards biology I guess I would have gone into medicine, I just don't like it though
Too much learning, nothing is logical, I mean the fact that you get quarks and leptons in physics is just so obvious! Honest.
Well, you're more likely to be employed if you graduate in a science degree....
I am one that finds it hard often to communicate but try my best, I am one of the best communicators I have met so far on the course actually which surprises me and probably supports what you have said about them generally being bad communicators. We're all too excited about Van Der Waals cubic equation for real gases to actually explain what it means!
I liked engineering over physics/chem/maths because it has a practical use and you get to see practical applications outside of a test tube.
I am one that finds it hard often to communicate but try my best, I am one of the best communicators I have met so far on the course actually which surprises me and probably supports what you have said about them generally being bad communicators. We're all too excited about Van Der Waals cubic equation for real gases to actually explain what it means!
I liked engineering over physics/chem/maths because it has a practical use and you get to see practical applications outside of a test tube.
Yeah employment is a little scarse for artists but its not really what i want to go into anyway I just thought it'd be fun to paint for a couple of years before trying to get a proper career for myself. I dropped physics and chemistry after AS so I can't really go down that route now.
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I had a massive career change, as some of you may already know!
Having studied for 4 A-levels back in 1990, namely Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Maths, and got a conditional place sorted at Leicester Uni to do medicine, I then qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 1999.....You work that link out!?!!
Having studied for 4 A-levels back in 1990, namely Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Maths, and got a conditional place sorted at Leicester Uni to do medicine, I then qualified as a chartered certified accountant in 1999.....You work that link out!?!!
