Monthly Archives: September 2010

In a Relationship

Posted on September 13, 2010 by robnuguid| Filed in Facts of Life | Comments (2)

In a Relationship

Formspring.me, FTW.

An Obligatory Post

Posted on September 12, 2010 by robnuguid| Filed in College Chronicles, Events and EXP | Comments (3)
  1. One month to go, and the first semester’s finally over. Since becoming part of the college student council, I have faced major problems aside from academics, and that’s something new. But so far, I do enjoy the experience and stress.
  2. My blog was neglected for the longest time ever. My last decent post was in May, which was about four months ago.
  3. I’m starting to love, understand, and appreciate Organic Chemistry. At first, the substrates, homolytic cleavages, carbocations, and everything traumatized me greatly, often bringing me to the point of hopelessness. Reaction mechanisms could frighten a young chemist like me, you know. But now, it’s Organic Chemistry, minus depression, and plus happiness.
  4. Analytical Chemistry is still my favorite subject. And I do mean it. :)
  5. Modern Physics is exciting but enough to induce nosebleeds. But it’s still pretty rewarding to know that the whys and hows of chemistry can be explained by physics.
  6. This is an obligatory post. If all else fails, I would update again next year.

ChemWizards

Posted on September 6, 2010 by robnuguid| Filed in College Chronicles | Comments (1)

The Green Flame of Boron

The Green Flame of Boron

For a day, we joyfully kept our periodic tables, calculators and scratch  papers away. We turned the perils of chemistry into a distant, almost nonexistent memory. We swore to promote chemistry to everyone (of course, I mean chemistry minus the difficulty) by performing pseudo-magic tricks we found scattered around the WWW. One of the interesting and most-applauded trick is shown above. That’s a strange mixture of boric acid and methanol, which is then reacted with oxygen. The flicker of their eyes when they first saw this colored flame spelled “Wow” with pure amazement. And it was, for us, priceless. :)