peeling back more layers

Current Mood: killing time

another way to look at the future (see last post) is to imagine how I might end up in the real world - the one where I finally (FINALLY) graduate someday and hopefully get a job

Purdue does its job by keeping me working for that "A"
I have had some impossibly hard classes. This...helps? Nah, not really.

Outlook for my major seems pretty good
No. 2's not too shabby. Any takers on how many decades it'll take me to pay off my student loans?

Speaking of Purdue, one of our professors recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

This part of the article cracked me up [one of the other winners was Richard Heck]:

Heck, now with the University of Delaware in the United States, developed his work on palladium as a catalyst in the 1960s and early 1970s

If you don't see it, read the first part very conversationally.

I wish I could go back to some of my old chemistry classes with what I know now. I would kick so much ass... maybe I wouldn't have hated AP Chem so much.