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It's week 4 at school. A long time for me not to update this blog.

Apparently my hall internet connection isn't well these days. It keeps going on and off (intermittent) at night, the times where I go online. And not only me, most of my friends staying around this hall are also experiencing this. The network engineer said that the problem is coming from the security setting that is not compatible with the school internet's, especially the setting from the new computers purchased by freshmen this year. Well, most of my friends suspect that this is because the server is not good enough for those amount of data. I even heard that the main library's internet connection was disconnected a few days ago at noon. x_x

My lessons are getting tougher, especially that this semester I have a complete set of chemistry (spectroscopy, organic/heterocyclic chemistry, physical chemistry/quantum mechanics and bio/medicinal chemistry!) So I need to work harder, especially because my CGPA has been "crushed" successfully last semester! Due to project courses that I didn't like at all, and even my prof said that the acad writing course did not result well since our (his summer student) reports and abstract was not really into science. Yes, that's what happened if science student's acad writing course was taught by ppl from soc sci! We were different, and we are. Seriously.

And this is what my prof said,
"You know, if you want to write a good paper or just a good report, all you have to do is read all the good, published journal papers and after you know the style and pattern, you've already known how to write!"

(I just like this! My labmates like this! LOL.)

And I think NTU decreases the cut-off for URECA!! Well, URECA is a prestigious research program in NTU. It was only for top 10% of students in the batch in the respective major before, and for my major it was quite hard to get in to URECA since the competition is quite high (and, FYI, NTU uses distribution curve to assign the grades, therefore, it is harder to get a good grades when your major is consisting of highly intelligent students). But now they change it to YGPA > 4.5! Wew. If they had changed it earlier, I would've gotten in! However, on the other side, I'm quite thankful for this condition, because if I had I won't have any experiences working in my current professor's lab since he was just coming earlier this semester and the URECA program started at sem 1! This lab is comfortable, but now, considering that we have 8 students working there (4 PhDs + 2 post-docs + 2 exchange students) the lab is too crowded to have more people inside. LOL. Love nanoparticles.

But I also love organic chemistry on paper.

So...
Let's go back to the jumping arrows at heterocyclic chemistry!
(wish for: Kinomoto Sakura's arrow card)