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(I needed to keep the parallelism!) Oddly, I’ve now (partially) fulfilled that dream by a means I never could have imagined: a scientific journal article. Sure, I’m third author and sure, it’s in a journal which probably has a negative impact factor, but I’m still proud of the thing, despite not actually having written a single word of it.<\/p>\n I’m also involved with a mentoring program at school. I got paired with an industry mentor, who seems very keen<\/em>, for lack of a better word. He’s actually kind of scaring me with his organization. I’m not sure this is the best pairing for me (I’d really been hoping for a grad student, since I don’t have any grad students I can talk to for this kind of thing), but I’ll make do.<\/p>\n School<\/strong> My two French courses are just fine, naturally–I’m definitely focussing on my strong points this term ie, NOT LIT). I got a full 20\/20 on our one and only homework assignment in my translation class. This is from a prof who deducts half a mark for every mistake you make–mistakes include things that may seem as trivial as accents. For someone who really only started learning French as a teenager, I think I’m doing just fine.<\/p>\n I also have to start worrying about grad school soon. *whimper* I’m fairly confident no school is out of reach, with the right letters of recommendation, but… I’m not really sure this is what I want.<\/p>\n Secretly what I really want to do is start McGill’s translation diploma program, but maybe I’ll save that for my mid-life crisis instead.<\/span><\/p>\n Music<\/strong> Although MONKEY MAJIK is ostensibly a Japanese band, the two vocalists are a pair of ex-pat brothers from Ottawa, and they probably sing as often in English as they do in Japanese. (I’m also kind of in love with one of the brothers, who’s released a song mixing English, Japanese, and French.)<\/p>\n Completely random and petty things<\/strong> I know I’m perfectly guilty of this myself. I still can’t decide how to pronounce “nomenclature,” for instance. “no-MEN-cla-chur”? “NO-men-clay-chur”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this post, you’ll find: Career ramblings School musings Music murmurings (I needed to keep the parallelism!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50,52,51,33],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-career","tag-chemistry","tag-monkey-majik","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nCareer<\/strong>
\nWhen asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I used to say, “published.” I deliberately kept it vague because I wasn’t sure that whether I wanted to publish a novel, poetry, journalism….<\/p>\n
\nSchool is going well–mostly. I’ve kind of let one of my chem courses slip behind a little, but I’m still confident I can pull it out in the end. The prof in the other is just so nice<\/em> that I can’t see myself getting anything below a B+ in the course.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve been listening to nothing but MONKEY MAJIK’s discography for the last three weeks. Currently on repeat is “LONG SHOT PENNY.” This is really the first song that I can think of where I like the music more than the lyrics, not counting all those Japanese and Chinese songs whose lyrics I don’t understand.<\/p>\n
\nMispronunciation gets on my nerves. Sorry. ALL<\/strong> chemists should know how to pronounce “chiral.” “Chitin” I can forgive; I might be pronouncing it “CHI-tin” instead of “KY-tin” if I hadn’t heard it in a presentation once.<\/p>\n