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So... i'm stuck at 'work' doing chemistry. But it's not the fun kind, no it's not the kind of chemistry i love. IT's f'ing measuring angles and bondlengths in a protein optimized in a computer in a gazillion different ways.
My god. It's 6 Pm now and i already know it's gonna be atleast 10pm before i get to go home  .
The good and bad thing is there are no PL matches to follow and there is no BW to play on these computers. fml.
I guess i could leave - i'm kinda my own boss. But i really want to finish writing on this project. It's really exciting actually but this part - generating the results is not very amusing... And i have been doing it forever it seems.
And the pages i wrote today - whenever i reread them they seem clumsy and.. "Not very to-the-point" I think i might need to delete them and write the whole thing a gain. I guess i'll see in the morning.
ANd dont even get me started on my theory section - I'm not sure i even understand it.
gawd.
The reason i said 'work' is because i'm actually a student so i don't even get paid lololol....
Oh well just needed to write this somewhere to take my mind off it. And what are blogs for?.
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Despite my choice of username, this is why I decided against graduate school.
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Hey bro, remember to optimize for alternate R-values if you're running off a crystallographic reconstruction.
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On November 11 2009 02:17 Biochemist wrote:
Despite my choice of username, this is why I decided against graduate school.
O the irony.
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Are you using Spartan?
That kind of chemistry is the worst.
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Using Shrödinger for the DFT and ARguslab for the UFF.
However i just found an old forgotten lionbar in my drawer - things are looking brighter!
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LOL you used [Boring] tag. Image yourself someone typing 'Boring' in TL search 
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what university are you studying at?
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Danish technical university (DTU) in denmark (duh)  i also live on a dorm here.
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Haha, I'm also at 'work' watching Starcraft vods and doing my Organic Chemistry homework. I'm getting paid though.
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On November 11 2009 02:17 Biochemist wrote:
Despite my choice of username, this is why I decided against graduate school.
Go to grad school. Get paid to be a student.
Not much, but every time you get to tell an undergrad you're being paid to drink with him/her is priceless.
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On November 11 2009 04:37 miseiler wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2009 02:17 Biochemist wrote:
Despite my choice of username, this is why I decided against graduate school. Go to grad school. Get paid to be a student. Not much, but every time you get to tell an undergrad you're being paid to drink with him/her is priceless.
...and all this time I thought they were just friendly...
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It could be worse.
You could be an art student.
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On November 11 2009 04:37 miseiler wrote:Show nested quote +On November 11 2009 02:17 Biochemist wrote:
Despite my choice of username, this is why I decided against graduate school. Go to grad school. Get paid to be a student. Not much, but every time you get to tell an undergrad you're being paid to drink with him/her is priceless.
I do realize the value in not stopping at undergrad, especially with a science degree where there's no upward mobility without grad school. I'm going to do medicine instead. I may shoot myself later, time will tell.
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I was in grad school for organic chemistry; left with a master's. Obviously I don't do anything in the chemical field now since a master's in the sciences is basically worthless. I don't particularly enjoy lab work and although I loved thinking about reactions and planning synthetic routes, in all honesty organic chemistry at this point is still basically a brute force approach. Come up with a cool idea, have your grad students bust their asses trying limitless sets of conditions to perhaps get it to work and hope for the best. I think to really enjoy (at least synthetic) organic chemistry, you have to enjoy the process of mixing shit and running reactions; it was said R.B. Woodward loved the sights, smells and sounds of the chemistry lab as much as the academic considerations.
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