School
My favorite discipline in chemistry. Kaboom.
What is nuclear chemistry?
A tuning device meets the cranium. Paranoid Android, Creep, and Street Spirit.
What is Radiohead?
My favorite subject in school. Specifically.
What is chemistry?
Least favorite professor - this semester. "When I was dropping acid...."
Who is Karyn?
My favorite character at the moment, named after a type of sandstone.
Who is Arcos?
The large building on east campus where an alt pop band played in March and our nasal membranes got probed in August.
What is ECAV?
Is Pucky here tonight? Clarkson sucks! Van Horn, Move, and My Type.
What is Saint Motel?
My favorite "character" from The Chosen (besides Jesus, of course). Who brought you food?
Who is Andrew?
Least favorite professor - last semester. "Make sense? Cool."
Who is Dr. Schaller?
What is skinny dipping?
A class in which we learned about silicate weathering, oxygen fugacity, the activity product, and redox reactions.
What is aqueous geochemistry?
Apocalyptic and dystopian - a soundtrack for Orwell's 1984. Uprising, Knights of Cydonia, and Hysteria.
What is Muse?
My favorite professor - fall 2022. I won't belabor this slide, but do what you oughta and pour acid into wata.
Who is Dr. Cioffi?
Least favorite professor - last spring. "Late to the Webex meeting? You can't pull that when you get a job."
Who is Dr. Mimi Katz?
Judas was ruthlessly chased by this creature, once housed on the Andsberg farm. Unfortunately for him, it also has long legs.
What is a peacock?
In this building I synthesized panacetin, received burns from both n-amyl alcohol and acetone, and spilled concentrated sulfuric acid on the table.
What is Walker Laboratory?
Originally called "Starfish." Midnight, Birds, and Cemeteries of London.
What is Coldplay?
My favorite organic molecule - made of eight carbon, ten hydrogen, four nitrogen, and two oxygen atoms.
What is caffeine?
Least favorite professor - fall 2020. No quote - never knew a word he said.
Who is Dr. Morris Washington?
This man is Amaryllis' secret admirer, a farm hand, and also one of the villains in the story.
Who is Jerry?
Speaking of concentrated sulfuric acid, this TA squirted a bit of water on the spill, said "it's fine," and walked away.
Who is Tyler?
A scary name for a Las Vegas boy. Romeo and Juliet, Battle Born, and Smile Like You Mean It.
What is the Killers?
My favorite band - currently - their biggest song repeating "the king of the culture's never really free."
What is Hembree?
My least favorite class at RPI (I think?). I didn't have to play with bromine or calculate the trajectory of a missile, but it wasn't all fun and games.
What is field methods?
What is a nuclear meltdown?