Organic Chemistry Lab

Hi! Today i will talk about my favourite subject, until now.

Well, my favourite subject is the organic chemistry laboratory. It's hard to explain why i like this subject, because some people hate it. I like it because i love chemistry and watch how things happen, things that teachers teach us in organic chemistry (the theory subject) and we can do it by ourselves.

We have laboratory once a week, and we have to study the laboratory of the day, in the previous day. I mean, if i have the laboratory in Monday, i have to study this laboratory in Sunday.
It's so funny and interesting to me, because we have to do different things like separation of liquid compounds by extraction with a decanting funnel, synthesis of different compounds from another with other properties by different reactions, like acetylation, nucleophilic substitution, electrophilic substitution for aromatic compounds, and others.

And in the end of the class we have to hand in a report of the previous laboratory. We have one week to make the report of this-day laboratory. We are 30 students in my group (or section), with two teacher and three assistants (for the teacher), and at least in my group, teachers and assistants are very friendly and very good to help us in our doubts, and this is too important because if you don't understand something of the laboratory and the teacher don't know how to explain you, you can make a mess.

In this class we start with a little theoric introduction of what reaction we will make, how it happens and what is happening in what moment of the laboratory, but after is only practice. As we have to study previously at the day of the laboratory, we have to know what to do in all laboratory. We have to be carefully too, because if you break something, the teacher will reduce your mark.

(a) A Forgotten Genius

Hi guys!I've always asked myself "what would happen if i had practiced my studying skills more years before?", because when i was child, i was very intelligent (according to people who knew me at this age) but my parents stop to stimulate my brain because they say that i was going to get bored in the school. Could i've been as intelligent as an important scientist? I don't know, but since i discovery the name of Nikola Tesla, i want his brain, because he was a really brilliant mind.

Tesla posing like a flirty boy

Who was Nikola Tesla? He was an american physicist, born in Smiljan, now in Croatia (July 10th of 1856), and died in New York, US (January 7th of 1943). After work in many electrical industries on Paris and Budapest, he started to work for Thomas Edison, who was a supporter of electrical current. 

Then, after a discussion with him, Tesla start to work with George Westinghouse in the alternating current delivery, and other things about the electricity in general, making artifacts that helped the world to use the alternating current to it benefit. 

This artifacts were his most important inventions. But, his most famous invention was the "Tesla Coil", that consist in a coil that can shoot rays, generate electron winds and send current to the human body, from a capacitor.

Another of his inventions, "increase transmitter"

I admire him a lot because, although people considered him a stupid crazy, he kept doing all this inventions for all. Although people steal some of his inventions, he kept doing his investigations, and this is love for the science.

My fat cat

Hi again! I don't know how to start this post, but...well.
Sometimes i come back to my house after univeristy, and i'm feel so alone, because my parents are working. But it doesn't last too much time, because my cat always comes to the door to recive me.

My cat possing to me.

Her name is Candy, she is my fat cat, and we adopted her when she was two months, seven years ago. I still remember when she comes to our house at the first time, she was so tiny (in comparation of how is she now), shy and too much intelligent, because she arrived knowing where she should to do her needs.
Now, she's too fat and moody. Sometimes she's happy and want's to play, but suddenly she's angry and "hate" us. But we love her so much.

When is summer (or just is a hot weather), she sleeps in my parents room, and when is winter (or just is a cold weather) she sleeps with me. She's very smart, and when she's happy, she search us to pet her. I don't know what i'll do when she leave us.

My favourite photograph.

Hi! Two weeks without a new blog.

Well, i was thinking about photographs that i like, and then i started to search some photographs or pictures that i save in my cell phone. I found too many pictures, drawns, photographs with my family, photograph of a landscape, and some photographs of my own drawns.

Then i found in a folder of my gallery, and was too many photographs of my cat that i don't remember i was taken in this! A few minutes passed and i found this picture of my cat that i love too much, because the position that my cat is in, is very funny to me. I laughed when i saw it.

 

My fat cat.

This picture was taken by me, with my previous cellphone (Samsung J5), on Dicember 16 of 2017.
I remember that i took this in a moment that i was playing with my cat, with a laser pointer. When i took out my cell phone to take a photo of her, in the just moment when i take a photo she started to scratch her ear!!
I laugh for a minutes because i just wanted to take a "normal photo" of her, and she just started to scratch her ear.
I really love this picture because is too funny her pose (at least for me).

My favourite film or book?

Hi! Well, i don't actually have a favourite film or book, because i'm not quite fond of novels but comics or "mangas". But, even so, i really like any movies or books, like "Carrie" (the book written by Stephen King), "Just go with It" (a comedy film), Shark Tale (an animated movie), and others.


But I will go with "Carrie", the book written by Stephen King.
I've read this book when i was about 12 years old, and was my first Stephen King's book that i've read, and i liked it immediately. Well, is his only book that i read, but i like his way to describe the situation, the landscape and the characters of the book.

This book is about Carrie, who is a 16 years old teenager that have telekinetic powers, that is constantly bullied in the school. One day, after her gym class, she was in the shower with her female classmates, and her first period was come, and she sacred up. Her classmates started throwing tampons, and things like this. When she comes to her house, her mother (a fanatically religious) started to treat her like a sinner for her period, and start to pray for forgiveness.
I recommended this book only to people who don't care imagine things like blood, intrafamily abuse, or others. Even so, is a good book that shows how a shy girl can suffer her classmates abuse, and the consequences that can bring...or at least, that is what i understood from that book.

My favourite piece of technology.

Hi again!
I had have so many pieces of technology in my life, from cell phones to computers. But my favourite piece of technology that i had, is my Nintendo DSi. I remember that my parents bought me one for the 2009´s christmas, and i still have it! But a few months ago that i don't use it.

This device was a portable videogame console, that belongs to the Japanese videogames
company, Nintendo.
I have some game cards with different games in them, and to play with it you have to turn off the device, put the game card inside the back slot and turn on again. Then, you choose the option that shows the jacket of the game and it will run.

I spend many hours playing with this every days, and i never got bored. After, i just use it once a month, and isn't because i got bored or something, is because i don't have the time to play with.

I love my Nintendo DSi, because it brought me a lot of fun when i was bored in my childhood and adolescence. I think that without this, i would never have known game characters like Sonic the Hedgehog, Mario, Yoshi (on the picture), Kirby, Zelda, Link, and others.

Why did i choose my career?

Hi! Many people asked me, inclusive my own family, why was i choose Chemistry and Pharmacy career. Well, it's some confusing to you, because i have too many dream jobs when i was a child.

Well, my mother works in the health area, so i have always been related with that. Also i have always love to animals, especially when i was about 10 years old, so i thought of become a veterinarian. However, that lasted two years later, when i started to read "manga" (japanese comics), and then i developed an interest in art, so i started to draw and paint. In that moment, i decided to study something like art (or maybe just paint pictures and sell them), but.....that just was a failed dream, because here, in Chile, i NEVER would have success being an artist.


During high school, i developed an interest for chemistry, because it was easier than another class to me, also because i was interested in works on laboratory or something like that. Then, i decided to become a pharmacist (or pharmaceutical chemist) when i discover that this career is related with chemistry and health.

Now, i'm in my second year of this career, and, it's harder than i thought. I've had many class that i didn't know why i had, that now i understood it's importance. I've learn too many things of chemistry that i never thought that i could understand, and this just make me love my career even more.

I've had three subjects that show us what we can do as a pharmacists, and i want work in the clinical pharmacy area, because i want to work in a hospital, but no as a doctor (medicine career never had my attention).