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[lordmardok]

This would be mine ^_^

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[Davroth]

pretty sure I'm still blank. Unless there is a symbol for indecisiveness.

 

[letfireraindown]

A whiskey cask. Maybe with a shamrock on it.

 

[RedRockRun]

A "Z" with a vertical line through it. My personal symbol even since I was a child.

 

[Roroshi14]

A Fedora with a whip around it, because I'm studying archeology ^^

Awwh man that was gonna be mine!

 

[Artina89]

It is essentially chemical biology, I don't know why my university named it like they did, as previously it was called Biochemistry and Chemical biology, but they changed it a couple of years before I enrolled. I must admit, I preferred the chemical biology side over the biochemistry. My research projects were in the study of Ruthenium complexes, and whether or not they intercalate into DNA, assessing various complexes' potential as an anticancer treatment, as well as the study of the Baker Venkataramen rearrangement, and their use in the production of Flavones.

Excuse me for a sec...

...

OK, I'll be honest, that turned me on a bit! =P
In all seriousness, that is some hardcore chemistry (the second one in particular, though that rearrangement looks like a derivative reaction of the Claisen rearrangement). Still, one of my friends is doing research into gold complexes as a possible anticancer drug (same sort of thing as your ruthenium project) and he's probably going to publish soon, lucky sod. As for me, I'm pissing about with a really annoying molecule (dihydroisocoumarin) that is a lot harder to synthesise than it looks (Diels-Alder reaction, simple as it is, is annoying when the diene is a silyl-ketene-acetal, grrr...).

But then I cross campus and beckon hungry ants to their inevitable deaths! For teh lulz!

Sorry... got a bit excited there.

Yeah, all the Baker Venkataramen rearrangement essentially is, is Claisen, I had to draw out and explain the Claisen condensation reaction in my presentation/oral exam, but you would be surprised how many in my group didn't know it, and I didn't have any problems whatsoever with the synthesis, the toughest was the Ruthenium chemistry was the most difficult as some of the bloody complexes didn't want to be synthesized! The [Ru(II)(dppz)(phen)2]2+ complex was quite easy to synthesize, as was the [Ru(II)(Phen)3]2+ but one of them (I forget which) just wouldn't bloody cooperate. Gold you say? That actually sounds very interesting, I want to know more about that, I will keep a look out for the article. As for your woes on your project, believe me, nothing is as simple as it seems on paper. We outlined a plan for the synthesis in the Ruthenium chemistry and it was simple on paper, but when your complexes won't cooperate it was enough for us to nearly fling the refluxing equipment at our Chemistry advisor (and then the IR machine decided to break, that was a really fun day)

I am glad I turned you on, it reinforces the idea that getting into the life sciences was indeed the correct choice .

 

[ChocoFace]

the libra scales, i guess.

It's the only symbol i know that i can identify myself with.

 

[Taekro]

Two touching gears but like they were made of programming lines and circuits. I love physics, mechanisms and everything related to computers, which is why I'm in Mechanical Engineering and planning to specialize in Automation and Robotics...

 

[Littlee300]

I refuse to be labeled in such a matter the way society does.

I don't remember this tattoo...

 

[SckizoBoy]

Yeah, all the Baker Venkataramen rearrangement essentially is, is Claisen, I had to draw out and explain the Claisen condensation reaction in my presentation/oral exam, but you would be surprised how many in my group didn't know it, and I didn't have any problems whatsoever with the synthesis, the toughest was the Ruthenium chemistry was the most difficult as some of the bloody complexes didn't want to be synthesized! The [Ru(II)(dppz)(phen)2]2+ complex was quite easy to synthesize, as was the [Ru(II)(Phen)3]2+ but one of them (I forget which) just wouldn't bloody cooperate. Gold you say? That actually sounds very interesting, I want to know more about that, I will keep a look out for the article. As for your woes on your project, believe me, nothing is as simple as it seems on paper. We outlined a plan for the synthesis in the Ruthenium chemistry and it was simple on paper, but when your complexes won't cooperate it was enough for us to nearly fling the refluxing equipment at our Chemistry advisor (and then the IR machine decided to break, that was a really fun day)

I've never really done transition metal complex syntheses (pure organic or protein for me), though that sounds like the gadolinium complex chemistry another of my friends does at Imperial (medical molecular imaging). Hell I had trouble with a Wittig reaction early on. It's a Wittig, it should work at room temperature, under air, with just stirring. WORK, DAMN YOU! It works now, by the way, though not because of the shouting.

Still, our group is right royally buggered for the next month or so... some bright spark effectively pulled our funding. An administrative error, granted, but when we have shit loads of money but can't spend it (it's been like this for a couple weeks now), it inevitably pisses a lot of people off. When in the lab, most of the senior people... and consequently, everyone, have been in high dudgeon, except the mature student who continues, as ever, to make inappropriate jokes, for which we're thankful (especially when he started coming up with 'gay names' for the straight guys and 'straight names' for the gay guys).

I am glad I turned you on, it reinforces the idea that getting into the life sciences was indeed the correct choice .

*ahem* How do I respond to that...? You're welcome! XD

 

[Robert Coale]

Mobius strip. Definitely a mobius strip.

 

[SeriousIssues]

Probably a dog. Hound dog, labrador, maybe even a beagle.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Maybe a blue rose, because I'm really different and weird, and love to draw.

 

[SeriousIssues]

Mobius strip. Definitely a mobius strip.

Does that come with roboscorpions?

 

[Amphoteric]

Test Tubes?

I'm going to study Chemistry at university.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

A nice pretty Hacksaw.

I never did understand why the call it that though.....

Spoiler: Is it not beautiful?

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[thejackyl]

Either a guitar, a music clef, or the Keywork Symbol (Coheed and Cambria Logo). Music is a big part of my life, and I am learning to play guitar. My favorite band being Coheed and Cambria.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Mmm...

I think it would either be a sword, or a Pen.

 

[Artina89]

Yeah, all the Baker Venkataramen rearrangement essentially is, is Claisen, I had to draw out and explain the Claisen condensation reaction in my presentation/oral exam, but you would be surprised how many in my group didn't know it, and I didn't have any problems whatsoever with the synthesis, the toughest was the Ruthenium chemistry was the most difficult as some of the bloody complexes didn't want to be synthesized! The [Ru(II)(dppz)(phen)2]2+ complex was quite easy to synthesize, as was the [Ru(II)(Phen)3]2+ but one of them (I forget which) just wouldn't bloody cooperate. Gold you say? That actually sounds very interesting, I want to know more about that, I will keep a look out for the article. As for your woes on your project, believe me, nothing is as simple as it seems on paper. We outlined a plan for the synthesis in the Ruthenium chemistry and it was simple on paper, but when your complexes won't cooperate it was enough for us to nearly fling the refluxing equipment at our Chemistry advisor (and then the IR machine decided to break, that was a really fun day)

I've never really done transition metal complex syntheses (pure organic or protein for me), though that sounds like the gadolinium complex chemistry another of my friends does at Imperial (medical molecular imaging). Hell I had trouble with a Wittig reaction early on. It's a Wittig, it should work at room temperature, under air, with just stirring. WORK, DAMN YOU! It works now, by the way, though not because of the shouting.

Still, our group is right royally buggered for the next month or so... some bright spark effectively pulled our funding. An administrative error, granted, but when we have shit loads of money but can't spend it (it's been like this for a couple weeks now), it inevitably pisses a lot of people off. When in the lab, most of the senior people... and consequently, everyone, have been in high dudgeon, except the mature student who continues, as ever, to make inappropriate jokes, for which we're thankful (especially when he started coming up with 'gay names' for the straight guys and 'straight names' for the gay guys).

I am glad I turned you on, it reinforces the idea that getting into the life sciences was indeed the correct choice .

*ahem* How do I respond to that...? You're welcome! XD

Ah, that sucks, a Ph.D friend of mine is in a similar situation due to funding troubles. But yeah, I love transition metal chemistry, I have always loved biological inorganic chemistry. You have no option but to like it when you are taught by the infamous Professor Martyn Poliakoff At least you have a guy willing to cheer everyone up. In my group I had a chinese guy that didn't speak much, a guy with OCD who was always in a bad mood, one girl who never showed up (and subsequently didn't graduate) and a girl who was a pole dancer in her spare time.

As for the last thing, anytime! *bows*

 

[ZickyJackz]

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As I am a mystery