Lab

I feel like some walking hazard in lab. The other day, I broke a flask containing my compound. I took 6 days to synthesize that compound!

In some attempt to console me, a senior told me that he once dropped his compound into 5 litres of water in the rotary evaporator bath. However, he had to retrieve it as it took days for him to synthesize it! That is akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. In fact, its worse than that for needles and hay are both solid immiscible with each other while his compound was soluble in water which turned into one big homogeneous solution. I have no idea how he did that in the end. The best most commonsensical way of retrieving a few hundred milligrams of solute from 5 litres of water that I can think of is to let the water evaporate off slowly and happily out in the open, in the sun.

I feel incredibly tired these few months, both mentally and physically. I have this increasing tendency to just be able to fall asleep till dawn when I only meant to lie down for a while to rest. It happened again yesterday, and I slept from 7pm to 7am. I feel lonely, with the work I do. Thankfully, I don’t feel lonely even though I am all alone in school.