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thedeadhaji
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so badly that sry, I dont even want to talk about it, but it's bad enough that I have to vent it in some way shape or form, even if it's not really even venting about it since I'm not even writing what it's about, or else I'm going to fucking implode from the stress of this fucking fuckup fuck me fuck.
God I could be so fucked for handing in my thesis now, that's about the furthest I can say about it fuck jesus christ I can't believe I let this happen never fucking do delicate labwork when you're (a) fucking tired (b) in a hurry, b/c baaadddd shit will happen to you fucking equipment fuck god fucking damn shit. Fuck the more I rant/write the more I'm slowly revealing what the fuck my fuckup is about but fuck I am so pissed no I am so disappointed at myself for even allowing this to happen fuck I hate this shit fuck seriously god fucking damn I dont even know what to do I called my supervisor (postdoc) about it but shit it's not like he can do anythign about it esp with the deadline for our thesis submission about .... it's due on the 24th, so what, like 2 weeks away or something? fucking christ jesus emmanualor lord mercy give me a penny kind sir.
What the fuck shit was going smoothly for once then BAM! fucking biggest fuckup I could have possibly done, aside from blowing up the entire department or something like that. I am definitely not cutout to be a researcher, glad I'm not pursuing that as a profession fuck god damn seriously I am so fucked I'm not even sure if I should be doing analysis on the data I have right now, cry in a corner of a dark room, or just fucking go to sleep.
I might go play Iccup fuck.
 
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Is this worse than when I deleted all the grades for an entire college class?
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I felt like that after STEP III :/
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is this worse then when i killed my wife and unborn child?
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The main alternative is to literally crawl into a hole and die.
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thedeadhaji
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this is definitely worse than when I opened a bottle of pyridine outside the fume hood. At least in that case it probably did harm to be long term health but didn't interfere with my work progress.
Fuck acg, I dunno man, fuck yours might be worse I guess, but fucklfaksjdfoaisdjflkasndflkandsflkasjdf god damn.
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I lied about getting tested (you know, testeddddd) and came clean a year later.
Jesus christ talk about fucking up bad. (I'm clean though)
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Germany2896 Posts
forgot to include your lab in versioncontrol? *g*
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Korea (South)11580 Posts
if its not due until the 24th, you have some time to get it done?
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You broke your chromatograph/laser cutter/photomultiplier tubes/something?
I've seen PI's tear holes through multiple rooms because they forgot a single step while teaching a new lab tech how to operate a bulk ultracentrifuge.
Shit happens, don't give up. Just redo whatever it is you need to redo, even if it takes you 6 months.
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Yeah man don't be too hard on yourself.
Calm, collected, and you're a badass no matter what's happened 
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On July 08 2008 03:21 L wrote:
You broke your chromatograph/laser cutter/photomultiplier tubes/something?
I've seen PI's tear holes through multiple rooms because they forgot a single step while teaching a new lab tech how to operate a bulk ultracentrifuge.
Shit happens, don't give up. Just redo whatever it is you need to redo, even if it takes you 6 months.until the 24th
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I count 28 fucks in the opening post.
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I don't get it.
I mean, you fucked up something in a lab at your university? Like, did you destroy equipment or something? Was it really expensive or what?
I mean don't get me wrong, but I did lab work at universities here too, and I don't think that was too much damage I could do even if I tried to fuck up.
So please, let me know, how much damage could I do?
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I'm confused, but I'll post out of sympathy for you because I'm bugging about a shitty test on a fuckton of reading and I only vaguely know the shit  .
God being an English major blows cock and it's only gonna get worse
Anyway, you got into *P-BOMB* so I'm sure you're smart enough to get your way out of it =]
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thedeadhaji
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if "smart enough to get your way out of it" means fudging data, then maybe >_>
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So your situation doesn't allow you time to go back and redo your tests/labs/etc?
Did you try asking for an extension, and if you did, were you as irate as this? =p
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On July 08 2008 04:43 Hawk wrote:
So your situation doesn't allow you time to go back and redo your tests/labs/etc?
It sounds like he potentially messed up an instrument worth thousands of dollars (if not tens of thousands). The chances of his lab getting a new one in that time frame are probably nill, and depending on how specialized it was other labs won't have one.
I'm wondering what in the world he did to mess up an instrument that badly though. Anything I can think of would take some serious neglect...
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thedeadhaji
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I "think" it's like 1k pounds, but more important is the fact that there is only one I can use and I shattered that to pieces ~_~. Repair / replace will probably take so long that effectively I cannot do any more experiements before the report deadline. I may discuss with the course coordinator, we'll see.
oh hoho more info is leaking from my mouth! (hands)
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haji you can do it!! don't give up!
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if the instrument cost is sub 100,000 (and it is), its very likely you can contact another university to lease time on their equipment to finish up your data.
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thedeadhaji
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it's super specific to what we're doing and it's custom ordered I believe, my best bet is to contact the pple in the uni itself does the repair for this kind of thing and ask them if they can rush-repair it for me. (it's not like supercomplicated electronic machinery, but more elementary... fuck I'll just say it, I shattered the ultrapure quartz reactor tube that we do our CNT growth in, 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))
fuck 5 hours later I still cant believe what I did.
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im sending possitive energy your way haji, standby..
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Whatever you did, being neutral to Boxer is a lot worse.
Or, it may be karma due to that?
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What are you studying specifically?
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thedeadhaji
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I think I said I'm neutral to Boxer because of this depressing incident, not the other way around.
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Just blame it on Carlos, or Juan or Pedro.
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I hear you man. Sounds like my work on my Maya projects. FUCKIN SHIT. Anyone that models or textures or animates, knows what I'm talking about!
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thedeadhaji
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sorry nasty, I have NO idea what you're talking about, care to elaborate so we can lick our wounds TT
Chill, funny, there is a Postdoc named Juan...
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I feel your pain. I broke my 2 foot glass bong the other night. :'(
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On July 08 2008 07:01 Chill wrote:
Just blame it on Carlos, or Juan or Pedro.
LOL HAHA :D:D with the sound of napoleon dynamite
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[QUOTE]On July 08 2008 07:18 MiniRoman wrote:
I feel your pain. I broke my 2 foot glass bong the other night. :'([/QUOTE
this is even better, breaking a bong is pain in the assholes :D
allmost as bad as running out of weed 
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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
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thedeadhaji
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fortunately I go to what is apparently considered the #2 university in the world.... (which I dont agree with, but w/e)
yea, the issue is the timescale of the repair effort TT.
If I can get it in... 10 days and get an extension from the course supervisor, I think I'll be able to hand in a 100% proper report.
If not, fortunately I have 80% of the data needed already (but I wanted to rerun most of it to reproduce the data so T_T)
I'll make sure to take the necessary steps literally asap to try to get shit in order, thanks for the advice everyone, I feel a lot better than 6 hours ago, and it's a combination of slapsed time as well as just being able to vent here and getting it out + having u guys convince me that shit could be a lot worse.
(Daigomi PM'ed me and was like "well you could be doing time in jail, that'd be a lot worse")
sigh... i made it sound like it was the apocalypse...
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thedeadhaji
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man there is so much drama in this thread how is it rated a 1! hahahahah <3
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Good to hear you're feeling better. 5/5.
EDIT: And now you have a 3 which means nobody rates blogs except one guy who rates 1's for the hell of it.
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I think he has a thesis due and he screwed that up and then broke something
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On July 08 2008 07:23 L wrote:Show nested quote +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
Quartz isn't glass. From my understanding, it is quite difficult to work with. Despite being one of the most abundant minerals on the earth, quartz cuvettes (which are a centimeter by a centimeter and about 3-5 cm tall) are like 200-300 bucks for a matched pair. From Haji's description, I somehow doubt what he broke will be easily replaced... and its going to be quite expensive too.
There's also probably a very good reason that it was quartz (quartz is transparent to UV light, whereas glass isn't), so it's doubtful a cheap substitute will be able to take its place in the meantime either.
Good luck in getting a replacement quickly, but I wouldn't count on it.
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thedeadhaji
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actuss i dont know if that reactor tube was quartz, I know the substrate tubes I use are indeed quartz so I called it quartz by association. It very well may be just glass but I'm not 100% sure, in any case I'll resolve it with my supervisor, who knows best.
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Hmm... well, better hope it isn't quartz then.
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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.
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On July 08 2008 07:38 thedeadhaji wrote:
fortunately I go to what is apparently considered the #2 university in the world.... (which I dont agree with, but w/e)
Just wondering, #2 by which ranking system? Anyways, it seems like your situation is improving and I am glad for you. Although things could have turned out better, you are not fucked and should be able to withstand and overcome this dilemma.
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On July 08 2008 02:10 micronesia wrote:
Is this worse than when I deleted all the grades for an entire college class?
Ahahahahaah
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On July 08 2008 07:23 L wrote:Show nested quote +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
LOL! Listen to this clueless boy.
Haji happens to go attend the University of Cambridge. And previously attended Princeton.
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.
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On July 08 2008 17:31 EmeraldSparks wrote:
Stanford is 20.
wtfffff
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Number 88 baby woooooo
haha
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On July 08 2008 07:41 thedeadhaji wrote:
man there is so much drama in this thread how is it rated a 1! hahahahah <3
People are envious of your ability to spam during THE PURGE and get away with it.
You know, like you ever did anything here to deserve it.
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On July 08 2008 12:59 thedeadhaji wrote:
edit: btw lets not add content to my useless blogs.
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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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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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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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thedeadhaji
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I hope I didn't disappoint, Jamie haha ^^
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I was thinking you destroyed a 100 or 200k piece of equipment...
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thedeadhaji
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I suppose I could still royally fuck over the TEM
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Or some high end AFM o_O. Pics please haha.
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So is your college career saved, or was going to P-Diddy now worthless?
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On July 09 2008 21:42 snowbird wrote:#65 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich/Germany) hmm that's not so bad i like this ranking
Well for a university which calls itself 1337 it is bad We always make fun of being a Elite-University when something is broken/does not work.
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On July 10 2008 13:02 fight_or_flight wrote:
I was thinking you destroyed a 100 or 200k piece of equipment...
It'd be pretty hard to do that... instruments that cost that much are rare (NMR would be the only one that I can think of that is common). There's way more that cost in the order of tens of thousands. :p
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I study chemistry too, what are you researching exactly, Im interested : ).
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thedeadhaji
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currently Materials Science.
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EPT
