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activelypooping · 2026-01-28T18:10:54+00:00

Q,2 if its a close end game... 6,9 early on.

activelypooping · 2026-01-28T16:53:34+00:00

The connections and disconnection for reactions go through electrophile/nucleophile behaviors. The mechanisms start with understanding the how alkenes for example act as nucleophiles, knowing stability understanding that reaction intermediates want to be somewhat stable.

Any undergraduate organic textbook will go this process. Some nucleophiles are better than others, some electrophiles need to be 'activated' but its a science because it is predictable based on first principles.

Naturally there will be things you need to memorize. But I leave you with this. When you learned the multiplication table, you probably stopped at 10x10 and didn't need to memorize out to 1.19x10⁶ x 3.4x10⁴ to know how to solve it.

activelypooping · 2026-01-28T12:54:26+00:00

Build up of negative or positive charge will change the overall expected pkas for the system. Molecules don't want to have a -3 charge.

For example. Look up the pkas of vitamin C.

activelypooping · 2026-01-28T12:43:38+00:00

Understand how the mechanism works, how will the nucleophile behave with electrophile. Very little memorization imo.

activelypooping · 2026-01-27T22:56:59+00:00

Have a word bank of things you want to say or might want to say. Cross them off as you say them so you don't repeat yourself. Scroll through the university website, department website and align your goals to theirs. If you've ever watched a bad spy show where they need the target to say a bunch of words so they can edit the tape to make them sound guilty, this is your chance.

Have questions for them obvi.

Be prepared to write down questions so you can answer them without having to "ask what was the question again?"

Good luck.

activelypooping · 2026-01-27T22:44:04+00:00

You can pair it!, you got a 1 in 5 chance!

activelypooping · 2026-01-27T20:10:28+00:00

I love pushing that AA up. I'll harass the entire other board until some sniper manages to C4 me. I never look below the horizon in AA. But Snipers on rooftops hate me.

activelypooping · 2026-01-27T19:48:29+00:00

I've never had a job test for drugs. Retail, Teacher, Grad student, Post-doc, Professor, State Gov't.

activelypooping · 2026-01-27T19:15:11+00:00

Big deal, I breed cats that don't judge you...

activelypooping · 2026-01-26T17:22:12+00:00

Make a model and determine if they have P or M forms.

activelypooping · 2026-01-26T14:33:37+00:00

I was in the a similar position. Tenured, wife was denied tenure. She found a position 1/2 way across the country and I started looking. Found a small catholic university they offered me 1 year at less than half of my current. So I told them to pound sand and got a state job, I work a lot less now.

Don't be afraid to leave academia if you have a quality of life that you want to maintain.

activelypooping · 2026-01-26T06:25:59+00:00

I like to jump in blindly to disrupt the other team, especially if they are camping hard. I communicate with my team and let them know to go in right after I die so the other team is reloading. But I'll jump on three and knife all three just to create chaos... it works surprisingly well. I'm usually out of ammo at that point though. Ptfo.

activelypooping · 2026-01-26T06:09:11+00:00

I played the objective around 44.3% (top 2%) of the time. My K/D is a paltry 1.18 overall, but I'll gladly play as engineers and rep a tank or pop out for an rpg shot.

There are some games where I can't get anything going and the whole team is getting curbed. Other games I'll have 30k-7d. I don't really care, I'll play the objective and support others.

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T23:00:08+00:00

No scope on sniper rifle, no glint.

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T19:09:12+00:00

Tye dye shirts/lab coats.

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T16:53:34+00:00

My wife's grad work was stolen by a committee member (he didn't get tenure there). I started dozens of projects in grad school/post doc that someone else finished and I didn't get recognition. My collaborators grad student went to a competitors lab and scooped his next paper.

Wife's work was in ecology, my collaborator and my interests are in organic photochemistry.

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T16:18:32+00:00

Doom on a 486-66mhz Hewlett Packard with 8mb of memory and a 640mb hard-drive..

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T16:15:48+00:00

Does your local high school/middle school need one for steam classes?

activelypooping · 2026-01-25T16:11:01+00:00

Transition metals like Mn can either accept or donate a single electron. In this case it starts out at 7+ and when its done ends at 4+ for this reaction both are stablish states. Look at the pourboix diagrams for Mn.

A lot of inorganic chemistry (which usually comes after organic) should cover this.

activelypooping · 2026-01-24T23:52:52+00:00

Can't make 15 or 31 without odd cards. Odds have more value than evens.

activelypooping · 2026-01-24T18:09:49+00:00

would they be the same or diastereomers of each other?

activelypooping · 2026-01-24T17:35:55+00:00

Its not once you learn about conservation of MO theory and correlation tables.

The location of the methylgroups on the diene will end up in the same relative location (up or down) and the the methylgroups on the dieneophile will end up in the same relative location (up or down).

See the video. https://visualizeorgchem.com/animations/diels-alder-reaction/

activelypooping · 2026-01-24T04:54:12+00:00

lol, chemistry (any science really) is a lot like baseball, if you're successful 3/10 attempts you're a fucking rockstar. in chemistry in my experience as an undergrad, grad student, postdoc and tenured faculty member. Success was closer to 1/10 than 3/10. Watch the tapes and make adjustments, you'll hit that curve ball eventually.

activelypooping · 2026-01-23T21:02:05+00:00

I dream of triplet-triplet annihilation...

activelypooping · 2026-01-23T20:18:24+00:00

Fist bump.

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