Greetings from San Francisco!!
Sara, Sam, Megan, Matt, Erin, Nate, David, and I are all here at the national meeting for the American Chemical Society, and oh man, has it been fun. Yesterday we arrived around 8:00 PM (after watching six episodes of "Avatar: the Last Airbender" while driving, woo!!) and hurried over to the undergraduate social for some "networking", food, and music, proudly wearing our Deprotonators t-shirts. Too bad the networking was actually just undergrads standing around awkwardly trying to dance while music was playing in the background. Good for us for dancing like spazzes anyway to "Tik Tok" (sort of fulfilling a lifelong dream to rock out with a bunch of chemists at a national chem convention in San Fran to that song. Ha.)
Today started out with free breakfast at the graduate school recruiting session. We greatly enjoyed collecting swag (highlights included awesome hand sanitizer from UCLA, flashdrives from Vanderbilt, and a chem theme shirt from Duquesne) and learning more about different grad programs. We spent the rest of the morning going to various presentations and enriching our chemical knowledge. Lunch was spent in Chinatown, afternoon spent at more presentations/poster sessions/expo/undergrad industrial chemists networking (actual networking was done here). Tonight Dave's presenting a poster at the Sci Mix poster session, so that will be fun for us to browse around.
Being here has really opened my eyes as to what is available in the field of chemistry. You can do anything with this major, which, not going to lie, is a little overwhelming. There is so much research going on in such depth on so many subjects by so many people. It's amazing.
Chemistry is awesome.
We want to come back in 2011 in Anaheim. We also all want to be presenting (fingers crossed).
Join us?
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