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[2006-09-09 17:48:42 +0000 UTC]
"Casey"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 743; Deviations: 27; Watchers: 18
Watching: 42; Pageviews: 6599; Comments Made: 541; Friends: 42
# Interests
Favorite movies: Lost in Translation, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lord of the Rings, Star WarsFavorite bands / musical artists: Simon and Garkfunkel, Glenn Miller, Talking Heads, Tom Lehrer
Favorite writers: Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Favorite games: ME1 and 2, KOTOR I and II, Fallout 3, Half-Life, Oblivion, God of War, Crash Bandicoot, the Sims 3
Tools of the Trade: a mind.
Other Interests: Books. Video Games. Movies. Theatre. Music. Art. Chemistry. Medicine. Sheep.
# Comments
Comments: 114
Thank you for the fave of Lady Hawke, hmmidontknow!
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Heya, thank you very much for watching! Definitely appreciated!
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You're welcome! 
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Warm regards,
Inverse
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Thanks for the 
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You're welcome! All these pictures are beautiful and I
I've been good, just having a really lazy summer, plus doing some chem research, but that's almost over. You sound like you've been super busy and did some fantastic traveling. I'm jealoussss.
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Well I only had time to go travelling for a month, for the last two months I've been working in my lab collecting data (which is now DONE! Onwards to the writing, good sir!) and then I'm going home in just under 3 weeks
What chem research are you focussing on?
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Ah well the traveling is exciting!! And I imagine you're a little homesick..
I did some research (not very much) in an organic lab, and the professor focuses on sydnones...which are aromatic rings with two nitrogens, two oxygens, and two carbons. It was named after where they were synthesized (Sydney). I guess some derivatives of sydnones have been used for anti-hypertensive medication. (Am I boring you yet?) But my research doesn't really have any specific aims yet, so basically I'm just carrying out reactions to make certain derivatives of sydnones.
What about your research?
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Oooh, that sounds exciting! And I don't think it matters if you have specific aims or not, testing the parameters is just as important as honing in on one theory. There are heaps of researchers who've simply messed around with the protocol of the paradigm I'm using to test the reliability of the experimental outline iteelf. As of last Wednesday, I had officially finished my data collection and am now writing up my manuscript (my supervisor thinks that my data is publishable which is super exciting). I don't know if I told you, but I'm testing the addictive potential of a prescribed antipsychotic used in schizophrenia treatment
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That is super exciting! Your research sounds neat. I hope it does get published!
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Thanks, yeah I hope so too. It would be totally rad 
To be honest, the more I find out about research as a career, the more I feel it's about luck and who you know in the publishing industry. Journal articles are the only currency and if an editor doesn't like you then you have next to no hope of getting published which is just so biased and such an abuse of power. One of my lecturers told me how he had trouble with an editor because he didn't like that my lecturer's paper contradicted a lot of the editor's theories, and so the editor didn't want it published. That's why I've decided to try and become a physician as well, because it means I can have a steady job and maybe do research on the side if I want, but I'm not dependent on the bureaucratic baggage that comes with journal articles.
Are you going to try out for med any time soon? 
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Yeah that's very true. Politics goes with everrrrything. 
I've got two more years of undergrad..I take the MCAT this April, which is the med. school admissions test, and then I apply this next summer before my senior year. So, super stressful times coming up. It's really difficult to get into med. school in the US, because so many people apply and its so competitive. You have to have so much stuff on your resume, but there are so many hours in the day, especially if you have to work while going to school.
Are you going to apply anytime soon? You sound like you've got the background knowledge for it too.
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Yeah, while I was staying in Canada I heard some of the students talk about how difficult it is to get into medicine. It sounds insane! It's not quite as difficult in Australia, though you do have to get pretty good marks and do well in our GAMSAT, but the whole extra curricular stuff isn't valued as highly as it is in North America. I'm definitely going to keep studying in Australia, as much as I loved studying abroad, it can get very lonely sometimes and because Australian students usually don't have to leave home to attend uni, that made it an even more bizarre experience for me haha. Btw, good luck for your MCAT!
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I understand the loneliness. I wouldn't like it much either. My uni is only about 15 minutes away so I still live at home. And thanks! I wish the extra-curricular stuff wasn't required as much. There are only so many hours in a day and I'd prefer to focus on studying instead of eating pizza and watching a movie with people I don't know very well in order to have my resume read "Chemistry Club member." Because that's what most extra-curriculars are like, no exaggeration. But I've done absolutely no reviewing over the summer, so I need to get on that.
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Hahaha yeah most clubs are like that. I find clubs require you to either be a member and eat pizza or be on the committee and run around like a headless chook organising events...at least that's what it felt like last year
Yeah, I'm a lot less lonely now that I'm back home. I've been back about 2 weeks now and pretty much all I've done since then is socialise and throw dinner parties hahaha, good times...
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Yeah exactly...Though I don't mind free pizza every now and then.
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oooh, that sounds exciting! When are you sitting the MCAT? And yeah it is spring over here and this summer will be my third this year!
I quite liked winter, but only because of the snow. Australian winters are super boring, except for when it rains and storms...that's rather nice.
You've started a new school year by now, haven't you?
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