Heh. Prof. Poliakoff wasn't just a lecturer of mine, he was also one of my personal tutor. It made for some awesome tutorials, the nicest guy you could ever hope to meet. Had a strange habit of trying to get his tutee's to watch his brothers films, made for some very odd emails.SckizoBoy said:Yeah... sucks, but we're improvising quite well, I think.Alucard 11189 said: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 PoliakoffAt 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*
Anyway, yeesh, that's a rather... awkward research group. Uh, my chemistry lab consists of a camp French guy, a gorilla (the name guy), a perpetually drunk genius, a guy who grows a full beard in a day and bollocks people with a grin, a bolshy (in a good way) Turk, a genial but short tempered gardener and a gun-crazed former industrial chemist. Yes, we get quite a fair few interesting conversations throughout the day.
And... wow, you've gotten lectures from Prof Green Chemistry! *jealous*
During my UG days, I quite enjoyed green/environmental chemistry/green solvents. *sigh* A long time ago now...
Your research group actually sounds like a cool group of people actually, it seems easy to know why you would have interesting conversations