• A day in the library can save a week in the lab.
• A week in the lab can save you a day in the library.
• Excess equals success.
• Garbage in, garbage out.
• If you don't get what you like, try to like what you get.
• If you spend all day on the internet...you may not graduate in time.
• Knowing the chemistry of a reaction before running it once is better than running it ten times without knowing anything.
• No one ever spends as much time in the lab as they think they need to-just more than they know they want to.
• No project is ever finished faster than you thought it would be.
• No one leaves details out of a paper without a reason.
• Only a dry solvent is a good solvent.
• The more you try the luckier you get.
• Yields go down faster, easier, and with less warning than they go up.
• You can never have too much starting material.
• Just because you found it in literature doesn't mean it's correct
• If you want to save time, do it right the first time around
• Just carry it on to the next step, it'll be easier to purify and isolate later.
• Getting a PhD isn't about intelligence, it's about perseverance.
• The worse it smells, the greater chance that it will bump.
• If it is highly colored, you will spill it on yourself.
• Never trust a label.
• Don't have time to do it right, but have time to do it again?
• When in doubt, throw it out.
• 100% consumption of starting materials does not necessarily mean good reaction
• The flask only falls when you are not there to catch it.
• Cowboy first. You can be more careful later. And you'll know you have to be in the future.
• Measure twice and cut (react) once
• Let it sit, and it goes to sh*&.
• A gram in hand is worth two in the flask
• Projects take as much time as you give yourself.
• Always keep the supervisor out of the lab: A one hour visit by The Old Man can set you back a month.
• Scale it up? Go BIG or GO HOME!
• Q: What's all that brown precipitate floating around? A: Probably your product. Filter it off and see.
• There are two kinds of people, those who finish and those who do not.
• The more frequently you TLC a reaction, the sooner it goes to completion.
• Expensive glassware begs to be broken
• The success of a reaction is inversely proportional to the value you attach to it
• Experiments should be boring - explosions are NOT FUN
• Just because your advisor references a paper and so does your book doesn't mean the reaction works
• A little contaminant makes a huge difference in color
• Don't reinvent the wheel.
• reactions do not run themselves
• There is no try... there is do or do not
• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
• Grow a set
• too much analysis leads to paralysis

space 上一次不容易

1. conference回来，不如说马六甲回来，意外连连的一次旅行，KEYWORD：猴子，蚊子，没热水

最大收获，一些关于chemistry dept的小小八卦

2. 好好整理了c盘，整出来2G空间，终于可以喘口气

3. 下午图书馆里看到GREY'S ANATOMY摆在新书架上，可惜我也不是学医的，好厚一本啊，留给MEDICAL SCHOOL的吧，下面放着一本DENTAL INSTRUMENTS，让我回想起自己的4颗智齿

4. 我会安安心心地呆在新加坡一段日子，不再到处乱跑了，但是这个雨下的连绵不绝，处处阴冷，丝毫没感受到圣诞或者新年的温暖气氛，实验室里空调常年18度，也是凄凉冷清

5. 错过了HR圣诞PARTY，希望还有其他的可以去，最好就在下个礼拜，SUNTEC开会期间去各大SHOPPING MALL也方便么，2007过得太快了