It's a lot of work, man. Especially this class. It's quantitative and analytical chemistry... so even though the entire lab is done by the computers, since they're so accurate, if i screw one thing up.. i basically have to do that part all over again. Today there were 5 parts to this lab. I did parts 1-4 just perfectly. Without a doubt. And then suddenly... part 5 screws me over. These amino acids, seriously. Maybe I added too much of the 6M HCl or something, but the equivalent points were just not showing up. Each time we're supposed to do 3samples. This is my third time doing the 3samples. That means that i had to make 9separate samples. Measuring out the amino acids is no fun, either. We only needed 0.05g which is a very small amount and I can't go too far over b/c then that will mess up the results. I had to carefully measure out 0.05g of the amino acids.. NINE times. add 3-4drops of 6M HCl .. NINE times. and then make sure that the pH was 2.1 or below.. NINE times. and then run each sample... NINE times. It's not frustrating. Oh no, of course it isn't. =) I just wanted you to get a taste of what I do every Thurs. from 1-6pm.

I thought I'd be done by 4pm...unfortunately b/c of these mess-ups, I am still here. Typing this entry. Pictures to come later b/c I was so bored during lab. =]

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Now I'm back in my room. Safe and sound. Sad, b/c the sun is gone. But I caught it on camera !




then like I said.. I got bored in lab. =) Great thing is that the lights in lab are awesome. ^ ^

our lovely titrator machine. unlike you high school kids, we no longer have to manually titrate acids & bases. kekekekek xP and it draws graphs for us. =)



The unknowns that we have to figure out.




i love these things. kimwipes will wipe anything down clean. i wish we used acetone in class. acetone also just washes everything away. cleans everything.

that's it ! i'll probably update about how II Corinthians is going... later. ^ ^ Bye ~~