One of the best things about going to graduate school in a STEM field is the opportunity to meet so many international students. During my years in the chemistry department I became friends with students from Turkey, Iran, Sri Lanka, Brazil, India, Egypt, China, Korea, Russia, Pakistan, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon,…
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I had no Trick-or-Treaters this year. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Very disappointing. And what made it more disappointing was that there were kids Trick-or-Treating on my street, but they were too lazy to walk up my long front stairs to come get the candy. It’s like that every year, but at…
The house across the street from me recently sold (at such a low asking price that it sold the day the sign went up – aargh!). Anyway, spotting new neighbors definitely means that it’s time to get baking! As you may recall from a previous post, there’s a lot of…
A few weeks ago I started to make some potato soup and when I sat down to wait for it to boil, I fell asleep. Not great. The pot boiled over and burned a ring of starch onto my cooktop for some time before the acrid smell woke me up. …