We did keep samples of our final synthesized products, so those will live in our fridge over the summer. We accumulated a lot of small samples over the past few months, and it was sad to throw out some of the results of our work, but when we come back next year we’ll have a fresh, clean workspace to look forward to. We started out by doing dishes! The dreaded task of an organic lab is washing up all of our glassware and disposing of vials that don’t need to be kept any longer. Never too late for spring cleaning! I function as a project manager for the group on occasion, as per my background, so I was in charge of setting our tasks for the day. Our last task of the semester was to organize our lab and clean up from our experiments over the course of the semester.

This morning, I woke up early for a 9am meeting with my organic chemistry lab group. So now that we’ve gotten a handle on what I’m facing for the week, let’s get into how I spend my time! My other task is a French paper which isn’t due until next week. It’s definitely going to be a long weekend. I’ve got my biochem exam on Saturday night (!!) and my physics exam on Sunday morning, with less than 12 hours between them. I have two exams, one in biochemistry and the other in physics… and can I just say that their scheduling has me more than a bit frustrated. I’m preparing for my own while also thinking about packing and moving back home for the summer. It’s May, so it’s officially the season of college final exams.

Somewhere in the Deep by Tanvi Berwah