Ugh

[Howard Roark]

ah, iirc you do a lot of support work for the grad students?

[Shiroikage]

ah, iirc you do a lot of support work for the grad students?

I'm lucky in the fact that I'm not just repeating experiments like the other summer student. I'm doing my own experiments that will probably have their data included in the paper that one of the graduate students will eventually be writing.

[Howard Roark]

I kinda wish I had better, more inspiring science teachers who didn't just say ok here's the materials now do the experiment

a seemingly simple experiemnt to demonstrate wave properties in water (or at all) went completely awry and I had no idea what I was looking for, what I was seeing, and despite all this I was pretty sure it didn't do what it was supposed to

I went in to the course wanting to be able to determine speed/velocity at the point of take off on a skate board ramp and determine angle and projected distance etc but apparently that's beyond grade 10 physics


also, (semi unrelated) I always envied the characters in Salinger's books, with all their knowledge of greek philosophers, mythical figures, ptolemaic this and that etc. I think if smart were sexy for me, then it would be that kind of smart that would be sexy

[Shiroikage]

I went in to the course wanting to be able to determine speed/velocity at the point of take off on a skate board ramp and determine angle and projected distance etc but apparently that's beyond grade 10 physics

My high school physics teacher helped one student calculate how large of a ramp he needed to pull off one jump on his snowmobile.
He was my favourite teacher by far. I was not looking forward to the moment when I told him that I was going into Biochem and Microbio.

[Shiroikage]

also, (semi unrelated) I always envied the characters in Salinger's books, with all their knowledge of greek philosophers, mythical figures, ptolemaic this and that etc. I think if smart were sexy for me, then it would be that kind of smart that would be sexy

Even for somebody who as huge of a science nerd as myself, I find knowledge of poetry and literature much more sexy than knowledge of natural sciences.

As an aside, I never really understood literature degrees. I'm much more well-read than the vast majority of people in those programs or with those degrees, and I do it all in my free time.

Also, we use protein shakes because it's easier to get a good solution.

[Day]

Thread has my approval.

[Conrad]

Generic nerdy science joke about dick being too big to go through the hole that the protein passes through in the experiment.

The more you know about where your penis is, the less you know about how it moves.

Damn you Heisenberg