Viimased kuu aega on olnud töised. Käisin laboris, tegin katseid, sain tulemusi. Nüüd peaks tõsisemalt ette võtma ka nende tulemuste panemise sobilikku lõputöö-laadsesse vormi. Üldse ei tahaks seda teha, mitte üldse kohe, aga peab ära kannatama. Muud moodi nad ju magistrikraadi ei anna.
Sellest nädalast hakkas kool ka uuesti, käisin loengutes ja värki. Mul on sel semestril kuidagi palju orgaanilist keemiat. Ja kahjuks avastasin ma orgaanilise sünteesi meetodite tunnis, et kuna mu viimane kokkupuude sellega oli mingi 2-3 aastat tagasi, ei mäleta ma enam pooli asju. Tulid jälle mingid elektrofiilid ja nukleofiilid ja toimusid atakid ja asjad reageerisid ja ma tundsin kerget paanikat, sest kunagi ma teadsin neid asju väga hästi, aga nüüd tundus see rohkem nagu... maagia.
Siis ma võtsin veel ühe valikaine, mille nimi on reaktsiooniprotsessid ja kus ma olen ainukene Y-teaduskonna esindaja. Kõik teised on peamaja-keemikud ja õppejõud teab neid kõiki ja ta viitas pidevalt mingitele ainetele, mis need teised "just eelmisel semestril õppisid" ja mida nad peaks mäletama. Ma tundsin end veidi üksikuna. Aga aprillis lubati meid viia värvitehasesse ekskursioonile, mis on lahe. Ja reaktorid meeldivad mulle muidu ka, niiet ma saan hakkama.
Ardo sõidab homme Itaaliasse mereuurijate konverentsile. Ise ta midagi rääkima ei pea, ta saadetakse lihtsalt kaasa vaatama, kuidas asjad käivad. Ja nüüd nad küsisid, et kas ta tahaks jaanipäeva ajal uuesti Itaaliasse minna. Ma olen natuke kade.
The last month has been filled with work. I have been doing experiments in the lab. But now I am faced with the task of writing something Master's thesis-like thing out of them. I wouldn't want to do that, not at all, but unfortunately they won't give the Master's degree to me any other way, so I'll have to suck it up.
This week the school began again. I have a lot of organic chemistry this semester. Unfortunately I discovered that since I last studied it some 2-3 years ago, I don't remember as much I would have liked to. There were some electrophilic and nucleophilic attacks and stuff and I felt some slight panic, because I used to know how these reactions and things work, but now it felt more like.. magic.
I also took a course of reaction processes, where I am the only person from my faculty. All the other ones are food or environmental chemistry students or something like that (I'm not sure what they study exactly), but anyway - the teacher knows all of them and kept referring to some courses that the others had just learned the previous semester and that they ought to remember. I, however, knew nothing about them, so I felt a bit lonely. But in april we are going to have an excursion to a paint factory, which sounds great. And I like reactors and stuff, so I'll be fine.
Ardo is going to fly to Italy tomorrow to a conference. He doesn't have to speak there, he is sent there only to watch and learn how these things work. And now from his workplace they have asked him if he wants to go to another one in Italy in summer. I am a little bit envious.
