Thursday, November 12, 2009

Things I Don't Like Thursday

When lab plans go awry....

Today in lab, my students needed to use the atomic absorption spectroscopy. Did it work? Nope. I tried what I could do. I called the analytical chemist - he couldn't get it work.

So what did some my students do today in lab? Mainly stand around and talk and watch us trying to get the instrument to work.

I hate when that happens.
That's probably why I didn't do analytical chemistry in grad school - instruments are frustrating.

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