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On July 08 2008 12:50 WhatisProtoss wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2008 07:23 L wrote:I'd need some like glass work department to fucking weld another tube onto the backend of it after like smoothing out the shattered end (the most compicated part of the tube is actually luckily in tact))
If your university is anywhere near decent, you probably have a glassworks somewhere to produce A grade analytical equipment onsite. The chemistry department (likely a doctor in analytical chem) would know where they are and what they can do. If not that, you could TRY to jury rig a repair by looking up a I'd say that you don't have an idea of what it takes to build/repair such a device. Even good universities don't have such "glasswork" departments. What university does such things? That means, they should have a professional, teaching students how to make glassware for engineering-related machines. But, what student would want to concentrate in such a field? And that professional would never want to stay at an university dealing with kids when they can be paid much more at a company.
Eh... it used to be that every university with a chemistry department made their own glassware. That's really started to fade out over the past a hundred years or so as scientific companies sell almost everything one would need these days. There are still universities who make their own glassware and teach students how to, although they are very rare (one was featured in Chemical and Engineering News, the American Chemical Society's publication, within the past year or two... I might try to hunt that article down). One big advantage of that is they can make custom stuff a lot easier. And even if it isn't full on making glassware, it is still useful to be able to work with glass. I know in my backwater university there was one professor who could make glassware if he had to- he helped me seal up a test tube on itself for one of my experiments, and he'd do other random useful stuff too.
"Grade A Analytical equipment" is probably not that feasible though. I'm fairly sure that there isn't a university that can produce a volumetric pipet that is accurate to be within plus or minus 0.001 mL. Getting the fittings on glassware to be right is hard enough...
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 sry haji
Hey at least you got to meet sea and savior right? I mean your life's already complete at this point anyways.
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On July 08 2008 20:51 Chill wrote:Number 88 baby woooooo haha
Haha, I'm not even on that list (didn't really expect to be anyway though). Sad that so many Canadian universities beat Waterloo =(.
Good luck to you Haji. May the CNT force be with you!
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thedeadhaji
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On July 08 2008 23:01 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2008 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
edit: btw lets not add content to my useless blogs.
you actually like discussing "my college > your college" ? TT_TT
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Btw I talked to my supervisor today, he bascially said "dont worry, shit happens. We'll try to solve it as best we can" etc and he's talked to the company that we get these reactor tubes from etc to repair it.
He was like "damn you must have made a huge mess" b/c the tube was shattered, not just cracked like he had assumed initially (basically like, a tube of radius 3 inches and length 2 feet shattering on the floor -> lotsa glass.
So I'm doing Raman and SEM and TEM and shit for the time being.
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So things are fine? You still gonna be able to get your thesis in on time?
By the way, are you doing a masters?
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On July 08 2008 10:07 GrayArea wrote:
My lab had 4 quartz cuvettes. 3 of them were broken by members of our lab. We have one remaining quartz cuvette that we use. Nobody has informed the PI that three of them have been broken. It is common knowledge by the general public that each of the cuvettes still exist. Each cuvette costs ~$400-$500. What a predicament.
what the fuck kind of quartz cuvettes are you buying
or where are you ordering them
because mine cost like $100 and $140 to buy
unless you're using some black painted (on the side) uber reduced volume cuvette that's just ridiculous
and haji don't worry i broke an analytical balance, and my PI barely batted an eyelash
the members of the lab made fun of me for months though
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wtf university of chicago over MIT? you've got to be shitting me
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On July 09 2008 05:22 KOFgokuon wrote:
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wtf university of chicago over MIT? you've got to be shitting me
One of the many problems with that list is that it's just "overall" which doesn't mean shit and is basically incalculable.
UofChicago is quite excellent in the social sciences, while MIT is in engineering, John Hopkins in Medicine, etc.
The other big problem with the list is that many of those are simply bullshit. Brown ahead of Rice, UofM, LSE? I don't think Brown alumni would even go that far.
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On July 09 2008 06:25 Jibba wrote:Show nested quote +On July 09 2008 05:22 KOFgokuon wrote:
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wtf university of chicago over MIT? you've got to be shitting me One of the many problems with that list is that it's just "overall" which doesn't mean shit and is basically incalculable. UofChicago is quite excellent in the social sciences, while MIT is in engineering, John Hopkins in Medicine, etc. The other big problem with the list is that many of those are simply bullshit. Brown ahead of Rice, UofM, LSE? I don't think Brown alumni would even go that far.
seeing as how USnews ranks MIT way above U of Chicago EVERY year, I don't see how an international polling group can have U of Chicago above MIT if they're looking at the same information
And I would rank brown ahead of UofM and Rice any day, and LSE = ?
then again they don't give their ranking criterion so it's impossible to say
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On July 09 2008 03:49 thedeadhaji wrote:Show nested quote +On July 08 2008 23:01 Chill wrote:On July 08 2008 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
edit: btw lets not add content to my useless blogs. you actually like discussing "my college > your college" ? TT_TT
No but I like hearing what school everyone went to.
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wtf my school isn't even on that list... it must be flawed T_T
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haji it's not that bad
i had a dream that you got purged for spam but then i woke up and you are here :D!!<3
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i'm going to be going to the school thats #1 on that list pretty soon
*dododo*
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thedeadhaji
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Harvard rush? O_O
(actually I think there are 1-2 pple on TL that go there?)
That's 1000x worse than talking about a girl with no pics.
You're clearly delusional!
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Glad to hear that things aren't as bad as they seemed! And what the FCK is Oxford doing on the same rank as us. Completely unreliable table. Qed.
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#65 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich/Germany)
hmm that's not so bad
i like this ranking 
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thedeadhaji
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On July 09 2008 20:00 Elric_ wrote:
Glad to hear that things aren't as bad as they seemed! And what the FCK is Oxford doing on the same rank as us. Completely unreliable table. Qed.
^_^
kekekkekekkekke
zerg rush!
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On July 09 2008 06:42 KOFgokuon wrote:Show nested quote +On July 09 2008 06:25 Jibba wrote:On July 09 2008 05:22 KOFgokuon wrote:
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wtf university of chicago over MIT? you've got to be shitting me One of the many problems with that list is that it's just "overall" which doesn't mean shit and is basically incalculable. UofChicago is quite excellent in the social sciences, while MIT is in engineering, John Hopkins in Medicine, etc. The other big problem with the list is that many of those are simply bullshit. Brown ahead of Rice, UofM, LSE? I don't think Brown alumni would even go that far. seeing as how USnews ranks MIT way above U of Chicago EVERY year, I don't see how an international polling group can have U of Chicago above MIT if they're looking at the same information And I would rank brown ahead of UofM and Rice any day, and LSE = ? then again they don't give their ranking criterion so it's impossible to say
LSE = London School of Economics
the problem with the us news score is that its based off of yield and acceptance rate. uchicago has a ridiculously high acceptance rate of like 38% b/c their yield is shit (like 35%), and as a result they are lower in the rankings than if their acceptance rate is lower and their yield is higher like most ivies. Although mit is def. better than uchicago imho in like all fields except social sciences.
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A+ bed time story. Hope you manage to sort that fucking shit out
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