Another year of half-decency
It’s good to be back! Even if that implies that my summer holidays are over, this doesn’t necessarily mean that my fun will cease. Given that I won’t begin to work at my graduation thesis before December (or the very end of November), I can manage to spend a lot of splendid weekends while I pretend to work hard at the chemist’s I chose for my awfully useless internship the rest of the time…
Then I’ll enjoy myself even more, in my opinion, as I’ll be have the opportunity to do precisely what I want: molecular biology. That’s hardcore stuff, baby!
So, now you’re probably wondering what topics this blog will deal with on this second year of life. Haven’t you spent your entire holidays annoying your friends with your predictions on this issue?
Well, now your questions are to be answered.
We begin with “At the chemist’s”, a series of posts which describe how I spend my days at the moment and how an Italian, country chemist’s shop looks like.
On October 20, “Saturday Night Synthesis” will be finally back and restyled with much more things to garnish the synthesis itself! As you should expect every (half) decent Saturday Night show to do: noisy and glittery.
Next month molecular biology will make its proper, grand entrance (after a short introduction I gave you with a couple of posts: do you remember?).
I’ll start with some theory (hopefully not boring “lectures” but amazing facts) before the main course: “I wanna be a molecular biologist” (title may change). Yes, starting in December, you’ll know everything about my thesis, through frequent updates on the work in progress. No one has ever done this before, and even if someone actually did, I don’t care, because I’ll be much better at it!
Oh, and I’ve also some interesting projects for posts about glass and drug-delivery systems…
Moreover, this being a Pharmaceutical Chemistry Blog, there’ll still be drugs popping around every so often.
So, I am pretty confident this season will be even better than the first one.
That’s all for today, lads: I’ve to finish unpacking, to transfer holiday pictures on my crappy PC and my iTunes library needs to be updated. Busy night as usual.
Seeya!
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