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It's not Prangstgrup, but it'll do. Watch those chem grad students run!



terrenceOh those chemists! Oh those grad students who aspire to be chemists!

Stephanie Quan writes in with an account of the chem department's winter show, a Varsity Show-type extravaganza featuring off-key musical tributes to favorite professors sung by second-year grad students with department secretaries on keyboard.

But in the esteemed words of R. Kelly, "after the party show, it's the after party." Stephanie says the fun really started with five hours of chemically induced revelry in the lounge. The ethanol flowed from twelve standard kegs and a massive punch dispenser, photographed here next to Stephanie's friend Terrence.

Just remember guys, "don't drink and derive."


Apparently some etudiants have a little too much spring fever to study in the library. But will chalk on the van am quad = success on next week's orgo test? Bwog sure hopes so.

Exploding syringes of nitric acid. Animal testing. And a band called 'Vector Sum.' B&W staffer Anna Corke talked with chem grad student Paul Vadola to discover the secret life of chem students.

Why did you decide to go into chemistry?
I was a premed bio major. Organic chemistry is part of the premed package and the bio major. Orgo is normally the be-all-end-all for premed students-- either you survive or you don't. I was worried going into it, but after around two everything clicked and I thought "Wow, this is obviously something that I understand and really should look into."


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