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Swany
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Go inorganic! I am finishing up highschool this year, eventually I am planning to get a PhD in inorganic. Right now I have funding to research
poly-N-heterocyclic complexes for catalysis and other applications. That has been a most pleasurable experience, though extremely frustrating at
times.
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sbovisjb1
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In Universtiy going towards Computer Science Major with a Double Masters (hopefully) in Chemistry. Oh Swany love the mood Sanguine its sad that I get
that Shakespearian reference. (Sanguine means you are full of rage, anger, you are hot headed etc?) I believe that reference came into effect as
people in the Middle Ages believe what color your blood was (or if you have more or less) determined your temperament.
\"Chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal
impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames,
poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly
that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia.\"
-- Johann Joachim Becher
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Ramiel
Vicious like a ferret
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Location: Room at the Back, Australia
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Boo inorganic, roll on organic! I got a BSc(chem) and am larnin' me a Bachelor's degree in organic synthesis (doing it by research, not class credit,
wheee!). It's so strange that I don't feel that qualified... it's more like "Wang-what reaction?!" and then have to look it up.
In fact, funny anecdote: I was just chatting in with my two supervisors (A doctor and a doctor well on the way to professorship), talking about the
implied aromatic structure of this multi-ring system, and so on, I completely forgot the word 'carbonyl'. oh well, I can't set the bar much lower!
haha
Caveat Orator
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bquirky
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There is a missing option on the poll  'some high school'
I left high school midway and consciously went the self education route.
Best decision ever now i can suck information out of a dry rock! (in the metaphoric not geological sense
Ive found not having a degree more of a benefit than a hindrance having more of a folio than a resume is a good way to get noticed.
At present i work at a biomedical optics lab designing and building medical imaging systems based on this technique http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_coherence_tomography
Chemistry is my back shed play thing
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Lambda-Eyde
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Location: Norway
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I'm still in the first year of upper secondary school. That's equivalent to high school for you Americans out there. 
Although I am way ahead of others at my age in chemistry and physics, I am still miles behind most people in here. Still, I have learned a LOT,
especially organic chemistry just from reading your posts. I just wish I had the capacity to start doing university grade chemistry and some
higher-level math, but unfortunately, the school demands a lot of me in other subjects (which I don't really care about). 
The first year is extremely boring, as I don't get to specialize until next year. Then I will take chemistry 1, physics 1, biology 2 and
"science"-math 1. 
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Sedit
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Quote: Originally posted by azo  | I bet there is not to many motor mechanics on this site
I was trained in 1980 and worked in that field for twenty years
and also had a friend that tought chem at uni and i done a lot of lessons with him at home which gave me the ability to do what i am doing now and
that is formulation chemistry.
ex. laundry products industrial cleaning chemicals.
Would love to do a masters degree but when you work all the time it is hard. |
Right here brother. Was a motor mechanic for sometime till just recently the company went under. We repaired and installed motors in yachts that we
built on site. We built Davis, Topaz, a few other bigger names and alot of custom jobs.
As for level of schooling... I got kicked out when I was 16 at which time they tryed to send me to collage because of some test they had me take after
all that. A 16 year old fresh from being expelled from school doesn't have many plans on going to collage at that point though. Maybe if they had some
hands on sciences at my school I wouldn't have been bord enough to eventually get kicked out.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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chemrox
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"I'm in school now (last year). I aspire to become a chemist or maybe even a chemical engineer."
whoa- are you suggesting engineers rank above scientists? In a pre-modern, post capitalist society, maybe that's true but you're awfully young to be
so cynical.
"When you let the dumbasses vote you end up with populism followed by autocracy and getting back is a bitch." Plato (sort of)
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Saerynide
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Hahaha. I wouldn't be so quick to blame him.
That's how the department here views it too. Everyone thinks they're the shit and better than the scientists. You always hear "but he's just a
scientist" being thrown around.
But I disagree with them. I've had enough of being an engineer. I'm going for a PhD after this (and it WILL NOT be in engineering)
[Edited on 4/25/2009 by Saerynide]
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satisfy any applicable law, regulation or legal process"
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benzylchloride1
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Mood: Pushing the envelope of synthetic chemistry in one's basement
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I will be starting my last year of undergraduate education in the fall. I am majoring in chemistry and plan to get a PhD in either organic synthesis
or inorganic/organometallic chemistry. I was able to take organic chemistry during 11th grade and was second in the class. I found inorganic to be
extremely fascinating because of the labs; I actually got to conduct some fairly complicated synthesises at the university. Next semester will not be
as fun; math and physics, not much time for research. Last semester I spent most of my time working in the organic lab.
Amateur NMR spectroscopist
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entropy51
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Since this thread seems to still be alive, I'll toss my two cents in by way of introduction.
BS and MS in engineering with minors in Physics, a BS in Biology and Chemistry, and an MD. But Chemistry has always been my main interest and I
regret not getting a PhD in that subject. I may just yet try for one at some point.
I've been a huge fan of the Forum for many years and finally decided to say something instead of just lurking. Many thanks to those who contribute;
I've learned much here.
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basstabone
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I am currently getting my degree in Chemistry at Texas A&M University and plan to attend graduate school but have yet to figure out where. I am
planning on synthesis but that could change over the next few years as I explore chemistry more
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zed
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Technically, I'm a Doctor. Though such things may count for little....in terms of real world acumen.
Some can safely and effectively chop trees, and some can't.
A high percentage of the posters here have a positive attitude, seem to know what they are doing, and are generous at sharing knowledge.
It is a great pleasure to be "schooled" at this university.
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The_Davster
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What is interesting is this thread being 4 years since started. I wonder how the demographics have changed over time. 4 years is enough time for a
degree.
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Ozone
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Location: Good Olde USA
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That is a reasonable question. On May 15th, 2009, a glitch occurred, and I was awarded the Ph.D. I don't feel any different.
Cheers,
O3
@ basstabone
There was no "glitch" per se...After all of the hoops you have to jump through, it seems like only a clerical mistake could have resulted in the
release of your degree.
There is a reason that the answer to the question "how long does the Ph.D. usually take?" is usually "we have no idea".
@ entropy51
Thanks. Chemistry.
[Edited on 24-6-2009 by Ozone]
-Anyone who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
--Albert Einstein
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basstabone
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What do you mean by a glitch occurred?
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entropy51
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Congratulations, Ozone! Is your PhDglitch in chemistry?
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jwarr
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I'm undergrad at the moment, w/ a focus on pharmacy. Assuming all goes well I'll be at pharmacy school in three more semesters.
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MagicJigPipe
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We should make this a poll that individual members can change their vote on.
This is because some people are advancing. As time goes on the 'curve' might shift towards higher education (excluding new and younger members).
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any
question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and
that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think,
free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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thaflyemcee
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MS in Polymer Science (Polymer Chemistry). Will be going for my PhD soon. A coworker of mine did his undergrad for Polymer Science at Case Western
Reserve Univ. in Cleveland OH, and from what I see of their PhD program, I'm a fan. Anyone is welcome to try and change my mind or point me in the
direction of other/cooler/better programs in the field, though.
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mewrox99
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Second year of High School lol
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psychokinetic
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Third tertiary paper.
123103 - intro
123101 - org and currently
123102 - inorg
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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Doktor Klawonn
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Ph.D. and working at school. Which checkbox to activate?
Dr. K.
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cyanureeves
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education
from here i was taught how to figure out how much acid to add to a salt.its a bunch of math.i think i was taught to hate math in school.i thought MIT
was an automechanic school until i saw their videos on youtube.
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entropy51
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Who needs math anyhow?
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aliced25
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Mathematics, the clean the pure, the absolutely fucked up & foggy, from the age of 13 I was lucky enough to be placed in an almost Soviet style
learning environment, the extra-science class shit, the lucky fuckers who actually enjoyed science, particularly physics and maths... Then the
hormones kicked in and I went astray, willingly, but astray all the same.
I have two uncles in the field, Quantum Physics, Quantum Mathematics and currently fucking around, finishing an advanced diploma in a discipline I
detest, having completed over half of a degree in a stream that is too cynical and full of bullshit for even me (everyone is equal before the law, the
truth that is hammered home hard in 1st year law, then, and only then, comes equity, the subject that doesn't say it straight out, but actually means,
if you have enough money - or influence - you can be granted a special dispensation - otherwise known as tempering the rigor and rigidity of the
common law so it doesn't affect those the Judges know socially)...
Unfortunately I've paid already for the Adv. Dip. Bus, or I wouldn't fucking bother. I'm not interested in doing anything except science and
mathematics, engineering is interesting, but doesn't hold the imagination long enough...
Then again, I'm apparently not quite sane, yet I do not repeat any action that has a bad outcome, whereas the majority of the people I see do...
Einstein said that to repeatedly do the same thing and expect a different result is the definition of insanity, yet the majority of people do just
that. Technically therefore, more properly, statistically, the norm = insane, whereas people who are outside the norm = insane...
Judgment call, I'm going to continue being abnormally normal
Another useful Einstein quote "You think you have trouble with Mathematics?"
From a Knight of the Realm: "Animated movies are not just for kids, they're also for adults who do a lot of drugs." Sir Paul McCartney
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