[JGK]

Hello all,

Graham here,  I started out life as an undergraduate in Biochemistry (Toxicology) in the UK (Surrey Uni).  However, my carreer had other plans and I "drifted" into analytical chemistry (mostly HPLC but some UV, IR FTIR, GC and LC-MS-MS).  I did My MSc in the UK (Loughborough) before heading for new opportunity in Canada, initially in Montreal now Mississauga.

Virtually all of my 20+ year carreer has been spent in the field of drug safety assessment for  contract researchand working in a GLP regulated environment.  It's a world of tight deadlines and rigid procedures but a awful lot of variety.

[karina]

hey everyone.. wsup?  i'm karina form Trinidad... i'm in my final year doing my degree in physics actually.. major in physics and 2 minors in environmental physics and materials science.. just doing a year 1 chmistry course for the extra credit...

just saying hi... the forum helps ALOT!!! with my labs...

[The Roseate Spoonbill]

This is my first post! woo!

   I was born in Southern California, and I am a junior in high school. I like to study electricity, chemistry (obviously), Sound Reinforcement, Foreign languages (currently German, and Chinese), and history. I play the cello, guitar, and the piano.
   I like to listen to Loreena Mckinnett, Elliott Smith, Korn (if I can find a modest, censored album) Radiohead, and Oren Ambarchi.
   -   I am a major n00b at most of these things.
        -    Oh, I also like to throw knives at things, and make them stick. HA!

[TaSt3MyRa1nBoW]

HI EVERYBODY!!!
I AM RAINBOW-SOON TO BE THE MOST NEGATIVE SCOOBY SNACKED FORUM CHICK AROUND MUAHAHAH!
*I HAVE A DOUBLE BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN IT AND IS
*I HAVE A MASTER'S DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
*I POSSESS ABSOLUTELY NO CHEMISTRY BACKGROUND
*ACCORDING TO SOME PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM, NOT POSSESSING A CHEMISTRY BACKGROUND MAKES ME LESS INTELLIGENT THAN THE REST OF YOU
*I AM A SMART ASS
*I LIKE GUNS, THEY ARE FUN AND PRETTY, ESPECIALLY P90's, M16's, 12-gauge shotty's, and MINI UZI's yummy yummy yummy!!! (knives are fun too though)
*I LOVE LOVE LOVE VIDEO GAMES, I GET PAID TO PLAY THEM WOO!!!
*PLEASE TAKE AWAY SNACKS FROM ME!!!

*Yes I Crank It Everyday, Haterz Get Mad Cuz...I Got Me Some Bathin Apes!

~K BYE!~

[undcvrbro1]

I've been lurking the forums for a month or two, but this seems like a good time to let myself be known.  I'll be an undergrad for Chemical Engineering in Fall '08.  I enjoy artichokes, math, and anything remotely related to chemistry. 

[Vortex]

I am Iliodoros from Athens-Greece. I have a diploma from the Technological university of Thessaloniki in Technology-agriculture with speciality in Animal production. I am 25. Nice to meet you all.

[jilinrika]

im not sure if this thread is still active but still, id like to introduce myself..

hi, im geleen 19 yrs of age currently an undergraduate student of B.S. Chemistry at the University of the Philippines.. i just hope i'd get to find new friends around the world that share the same passion as mine, chemistry! hopefully, i'll learn a lot from the people here.. i wish someone would reply to me.. 

[Think2Much4UserNames]

Hi there, Happy Summer everyone!   
I am a new member and I joined 3 days ago. I found this forum when I was searching for university ranks. My name's Joshua Lai and my cantonese name is ManKit . I'm from Hong Kong in the southeast Asia, but I've been studying in Vancouver in B.C. of Canada for 3 years now. After this summer, It's going to be my last year in high school. I'm going to miss all my friends from high school as well as my high school life but I'm getting excited for university while finding universities to apply for! 

Next year, I'll be taking AP chem and geology as my science courses and calculus and statistics for maths. I'm not very good at chemistry but I'm also not that bad either. Since I was a kid, I had a very wild imagination and I thought about fantastical things wherever I go maybe because of Lego toys, cartoons and movies. I tried writing novels about fantasies but I gave up in the very beginning, there I thought writing might not be my thing. I wanted to create it, use it and see it with my own eyes  . Not to mention I also play video games when I was a kid, I played Little Fighter 2 (LF2) which probably most Asians my age know, It's a little fighting game some Hong Kong people created. And I remember I always pick the flame type characters, I found these characters magical and I was really ownage using them. 

As I grew older to my elementary school life, I learnt a bit science of every branch and a bit of chemistry, and the teachers would bring us to science world and there we saw a scientist putting a broad leave of cabbage into a cold container of liquid and hits it hard onto the table, the cabbage broke to little pieces. There I found chemistry magical ever since! So here I am, taking AP chem to know it more and now living in a world of chemistry along with my imagination to create.

I feel a bit bad that my knowledge isn't enough to answer most questions in this forum, the only ones I understand are at the high school category. I am really happy that everyone here is from a different culture and able to interact with each other with their knowledge and their own love in chemistry. I LOVE THIS FORUM! I hope to meet more people here and learn from you guys. So yeah, that's all it is about me and my first exposure to chemistry, thanks for reading! ^^

Joshua Lai

[SarahA&M]

Hey,

My name is Sarah and I am a grad student at Texas A&M.  I'm a second year working for my PhD as an inorganic chemist.  My research focuses on using nanoparticles to target tumor cells and deliver a PDT agent.  I was very bored today (I should be in the lab ) but I decided to take the day off and do absolutely nothing.  So hi.

[Mitch]

Hi Sarah, more graduate students spending their spare time at Chemical Forums is always a good thing.

[enahs]

Hello Sarah.
Say hello to my buddy Ryan L..
He starts graduate school at A&M this fall!

[SarahA&M]

Oh really?  what division?  I'm inorganic.  Yeah I'm really bored today...

[enahs]

To be honest, I am not sure. He just got married last week and we did not talk much about that.
I am not really sure who he will be working with, if that is even lined up.

He did however get really nice fellowship on top of the stipend.

[SarahA&M]

And that is the second biggest reason I went to A&M 

Low cost of living... high end of salaries for schools... great fellowship

and I really wanted to work with Kim Dunbar

[Mitch]

I like my low salary and high cost of living, just fine. :p