I love Excel. For one of my classes we have 72 calculations to enter into a computer program for a lab. Two other students and I got together and made a magical spreadsheet where you answer in all of the unknowns and BAM...out pop the 72 calculations. it only took us about an hour to program, but I feel like it will probably save us all about 10 hours in actual calculations (ok...maybe not 10...but a lot.) I love excel.I have an official job offer for the summer. Kerry Ingredients, the place that I work for my internship through the Duffy class, offered me a paying job for this summer. though I would rather be in a lab at a university doing something slightly more of interest to me, I really am enjoying my time at Kerry. Plus, it is nice to know that I WILL be working this summer. if I do end up at Kerry this summer, I am going to apply for a summer job at the library here on
campus so that i can stay in Beloit and not have to commute here every day from Madison.Things are getting really crazy. with a little more then a month left to the school year, professors are piling it on hard....or should I say my procrastination has made it hard. In organic chemistry we started our final independent synthesis projects. i am synthesizing NMP, a precursor to Prozac. I did all of the things I was supposed to do according the researched lab procedure, but when I distilled out all of the ethanol at the end I had...nada. luckily we have 5 weeks to do the lab and mine really only takes 2, so next week I just get to start again.
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