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Jan. 5th, 2010 10:03 pmDay one of playing with a really big magnet went well. When we came back from lunch, we saw a bit of signal from one of the samples we couldn't see after running it all night on the instrument at Western. I was ridiculously excited about that very small but DEFINITELY REAL peak. And then we played around with a different sample and it gave us signal fast enough that we could figure out we could manage a way shorter pulse delay than we had been using because people before us used it. Which means we can get more signal faster!
I bumped into one of my friends from undergrad in the NRC cafeteria. I had forgotten that she works here now. The joy of being from Mount A: Everywhere you go in your field, the odds are pretty decent you'll come across someone you know. This is why I drive my current group crazy at conferences. :p
If I could just figure out why my debit card keeps not working, I'd be in great shape!
Oh, and apparently I'm not TAing this semester. Which is weird, since I've been the only Polymer TA for two years now. But Jiacheng is now taking that course... which is odd since his TA assignment was a full year course. I guess the bit about changes in undergrad enrollment meant that a lot of freshmen dropped out and they don't need as many TAs? I'm now going to be helping in the NMR room over the summer. I guess this is their solution to not being able to afford a new technician? I know there's a fourth year work study student helping in there during the school year.
I think it'll be good experience if I'm helping with maintenance and such, since that would make me more qualified to manage an NMR facility some day... which is what I'm starting to think I'd like to do. I kinda wish it could have replaced 213 instead of Polymer though. Even though I'm utterly NOT a polymer chemist and in fact mostly just know the stuff that the labs cover, Polymer is WAY more fun to TA than 213.
I bumped into one of my friends from undergrad in the NRC cafeteria. I had forgotten that she works here now. The joy of being from Mount A: Everywhere you go in your field, the odds are pretty decent you'll come across someone you know. This is why I drive my current group crazy at conferences. :p
If I could just figure out why my debit card keeps not working, I'd be in great shape!
Oh, and apparently I'm not TAing this semester. Which is weird, since I've been the only Polymer TA for two years now. But Jiacheng is now taking that course... which is odd since his TA assignment was a full year course. I guess the bit about changes in undergrad enrollment meant that a lot of freshmen dropped out and they don't need as many TAs? I'm now going to be helping in the NMR room over the summer. I guess this is their solution to not being able to afford a new technician? I know there's a fourth year work study student helping in there during the school year.
I think it'll be good experience if I'm helping with maintenance and such, since that would make me more qualified to manage an NMR facility some day... which is what I'm starting to think I'd like to do. I kinda wish it could have replaced 213 instead of Polymer though. Even though I'm utterly NOT a polymer chemist and in fact mostly just know the stuff that the labs cover, Polymer is WAY more fun to TA than 213.
