As I’m sure regular visitors have noticed, things haven’t been too exciting around here for a while. In lieu of boring you with all the gory details, I’ll just say that MGW is going on a little “break” for the time being. Regular...

The chemistry world can be a very small place. Last semester, for example, I TA’ed for a professor who had my undergrad organic professor as her organic TA in undergrad. What does this have to do with Wednesday’s problem? To put it plainly, I don’t...

Tonight’s problem comes once again from Harvard’s challenging organic problems website.In the early 1980’s, Robert Stevens’s group at UCLA studied nucleophilic additions to and reductions of tetrahydropyridiniums, which could potentially...

I have been oscillating between periods of utter excitement and dejected paranoia about graduate school all year long, but this week has definitely been an "up" in the saga of my post-secondary manic depression. As I was driving around downtown Lexington this...

As I’m sure regular visitors have noticed, things haven’t been too exciting around here for a while. In lieu of boring you with all the gory details, I’ll just say that MGW is going on a little “break” for the time being. Regular...

The chemistry world can be a very small place. Last semester, for example, I TA’ed for a professor who had my undergrad organic professor as her organic TA in undergrad. What does this have to do with Wednesday’s problem? To put it plainly, I don’t...

Since I just finished my degree requirements (at long last), there’s one less thing keeping me at home. Because I’ve been here awhile, though, I figured I’d list a few of the nicer things about the area and the university.[1] Unless you’re...