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    Originally posted by petrefax
    hehe - another 1992 graduate here! - where'd u go mate?
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    i like chemistry, i like girls
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    Looks like we got a forum full of computer scientists. and iv seen quite a few mathmatitians here too u cleva buGGers

    Were starting to take our hobbies seriously

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    i dont do chemistry as a hobby it's getting the best out of something not that great.... blowing things up/getting experiments wrong is fun

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    You want to know something about things going wrong in the chemistry lab? Try this...

    I was trying to reduce an sugar-based acid back to the sugar and it required heat with lithium aluminum hydride in a ether solution. I setup the equipment and left. When I came back, the fume cupboard has been racked!! The water pipe feeding the condenser was loose and after the ether was boiled dry, the LiAlH4 exploded... I was told it was a 'bang' of sort... One of the stoppers on the tripple neck round bottom flask got blown off - it hit the side of the fume cupboard which usually has bullet-proof glass! You can see the point of impact!

    If you think that's not too spectacular, the one that happened a year after I left was truly awful... The kid was doing a different reaction, but lost his left hand (he was holding the flask) and his thumb and first two fingers on his right hand (he was adding something into the flask when it went)!!
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    oh dear god! and i complained cos i used something-or-another carbonate instead of carbonite and it was wrong! - hence i got a B :/ but we didnt get a second chance at the experiment, eventhough it was the fooking demonstrators fault for putting the wrong thing in the wrong place and i got some sort of yellow precipitate instead of a colourless solution heh... oh well!

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    You get to run your own projects and experiments when you get to the 3rd years... The senior project is one of the most demanding things, especially if you do it on of the heavy-duty experiemental projects.

    Anyway, no-one have better time fighting than chemist!! We used to have dry ice fights! Why? You can hit people and it will hurt, but you don't have to clean up!!
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    They wont let me play with dangerous liquids

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    Re: Whos going to uni?

    Originally posted by BoB_DoG
    As in the title, how many people are off to university this year, and if so what u studying?

    Personally, after the fiasco of six months at UCL studying Electronic Engineering, and then actually having to work after leaving, I am off on my way to a course that wont suck.

    Im going to Brunel University to study Product design (BSc Baby!)

    AND I CANT WAIT.
    Why a fiasco ?? Im doing my A2's right now and have to put my application in for uni next year, in a couple of months, think im gonna apply to Bristol for Electronic Engineering ??? It aint that bad is it ??

    Maybe Electronic Eng with computer systems Eng, still havn't made my mind up as to the specific course. Did you just not like it ? or what ...

    All i know is HATE chemistry, after being baffled by somehow getting an A in my GCSE chemistry I was some how convinced to take AS level chemistry, big mistake lol. On results day i come out with, Maths A, Physics A, Computing A, Chemistry D
    I ended up with an unclasified with one of them, only managed the D because i got a B in one module, just scraped a D by 2%

    I blame it on the chem teacher who encouraged questions and then liked to call you an imbecile for not knowing the answer lol
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    Electronic Engineering wasnt too bad, but where I was it was a really intensive course, and also full of foreign students, most of whom had trouble speaking fluent english. The course was all maths based, and whilst that might tent some peoples trousers, it wasnt really what I expected it to be.

    In the end, I really wanted more from my 4 years at uni than just a degree, and a lot of hard work.

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    im off to uni,
    cant do with the early starts anymore
    all messed up times,
    9-10am lecture
    free all day
    and 4-5pm lecture

    this is cruel / torture!

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    as you might have seen from my 'woohoo!' thred i finished (very drunkenly) an MSc yesterday which I am very happy about.
    now thinking 'what next' or maybe PhD..

    i fancy being a doctor if only for the reason that I can stand up and shout 'YES' what someone calls out 'is there a doctor in the house'
    despite having zip to do with medicine
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    Originally posted by BoB_DoG
    Electronic Engineering wasnt too bad, but where I was it was a really intensive course, and also full of foreign students, most of whom had trouble speaking fluent english. The course was all maths based, and whilst that might tent some peoples trousers, it wasnt really what I expected it to be.
    i noticed you said you were at UCL first then changed.
    well done. I was there for my first degree, and i know lots of people who joined up and then left cause [to put it simply] it wasn't what they expected. i really could have gone straight up into the 2nd year because almost everything we did in the first year i did for a-levels. so i spent one needless year there to start with and didn't really enjoy it after that.

    i think KCL is far far better where I did an MSc. so much nicer. lots of people at UCL are up there own backsides its just not true. oh and grumpy lots, hate helping students...kind of weird since they work in the university...oh well.

    p.s. I'm a Physiologist, not comp.sci or chemist etc...

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    Funny, for me, it was a choice between UCL and KCL and guess what - I chose Kings...
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