Chaotic Coffee Klatch (tea also available)

[Strixaluco]

I love the fact that more women are going into engineering (and STEM in general), as well as much more racial, sexual identity and sexual orientation diversity. With diversity of people comes diversity of ideas!

In my field of engineering, 50% of the students were female already 25 years ago.

But for example IT is a lot worse and still has plenty of even outright misogyni.

 

[Photog1rl]

Ooh, I'm curious, what do you do? I like hearing what other STEM people do.

I am a chemist and I do climate research.

 

[Daisy_Love]

Talking about chemists, where’s @crazychemgirl

 

[kieranhalcyon01]

I am a chemist and I do climate research.

Interesting! You're really freaking important!

 

[Photog1rl]

I am so glad that I never had to take real quantum mechanics. I got to take the wussy version for biochem majors.

i took a year of upper division biochem as an undergrad nothing wussy about it

 

[kieranhalcyon01]

i took a year of upper division biochem as an undergrad nothing wussy about it

My physical chemistry class was stuff like "here are the laws of thermodynamics, learn how to apply and use them." My Chem major friends' pchem final was "derive and prove the laws of thermodynamics."

I definitely had the wussy version.

 

[VoraciousValue]

Frankly speeking, my MIL used to say age is only a number, but she stopped with that somewhere between 85 and 90. Her age finally got hold of her.

My father sweats extreme old age generally, not the number itself. He turns 96 in February, and he complains about his heart (he has no heart problems other than a pacemaker) and issues that are a little more serious. He always says, "I'm not going to be around much longer." He said that shit 30 years ago.

Around the time he turned 91, I asked him on his birthday, "Dad, how do you feel about turning 91?"

His reply, "About the same as I did when I tuned 90!"

 

[VoraciousValue]

Co fee? Ka fe? Cooo fe?

Need caffeine.

Moning Chaos.

It's interesting how the word "coffee" doesn't change much across European language families. Even the Russians refer to it as "ko-FE." (кофе)

 

[VoraciousValue]

Good Morning Everyone
https://www.tastingtable.com/img/gallery/coffee-brands-ranked-from-worst-to-best/l-intro-1645231221.jpg

(Rubs nipples suggestively.)

 

[Photog1rl]

My physical chemistry class was stuff like "here are the laws of thermodynamics, learn how to apply and use them." My Chem major friends' pchem final was "derive and prove the laws of thermodynamics."

I definitely had the wussy version.

My oldest daughter was 2 1/2 when I was in stat mech and she would say, “mommy, are you doing sadistical mechanics?” It was perfectly spot on!

 

[VoraciousValue]

Fiiiiine.

Poof

I miss all the fun.

 

[Strixaluco]

I am a chemist and I do climate research.

Another environmentalist, yay! Water and waste management engineer here. (Water management as in drinking water and waste water, between natural water bodies and users - not dams etc.)

 

[Strixaluco]

It's interesting how the word "coffee" doesn't change much across European language families. Even the Russians refer to it as "ko-FE." (кофе)

Kahvi. We pronounce and write the same, so a is as in alpha.

 

[Strixaluco]

My physical chemistry class was stuff like "here are the laws of thermodynamics, learn how to apply and use them." My Chem major friends' pchem final was "derive and prove the laws of thermodynamics."

I definitely had the wussy version.

Oh damn. Thermodynamics was one very good reason NOT to specialise on energy engineering!

Yeah. Couldn't get through the 2 first years completely without, but I really was happy to get rid of it then.

(Then again, already 1 course in biochemistry and 1 in microbiology made me reject another speciality, which would have been closely related to my major - not interested in the soul life of microbes...)

 

[VoraciousValue]

Who put the dick on the snowman/And embarrassed the family?
You could have used a ball bat/Cucumber or zucchini
But instead you used a thimble/Something you could barely see
Who put the dick on the snowman/And made him look like me?

 

[Strixaluco]

He always says, "I'm not going to be around much longer." He said that shit 30 years ago.

Well.... He's most probably right at that age.

My MIL is 92 and probably has Alzheimer's - not completely sure as they found out she'd had a seizure in her cerebellum, but the memory problems seem to be progressing so... And also it seems to make her more passive. You know what that does - it won't take long before she can't get up from sitting position anymore...

 

[kieranhalcyon01]

My oldest daughter was 2 1/2 when I was in stat mech and she would say, “mommy, are you doing sadistical mechanics?” It was perfectly spot on!

That sounds about right, yeah. There is much less math in medicine and I am very happy about that.

Oh damn. Thermodynamics was one very good reason NOT to specialise on energy engineering!

Yeah. Couldn't get through the 2 first years completely without, but I really was happy to get rid of it then.

(Then again, already 1 course in biochemistry and 1 in microbiology made me reject another speciality, which would have been closely related to my major - not interested in the soul life of microbes...)

awww, you didn't want to learn and forget the Krebs cycle like 47 times?

 

[Cogan]

It's interesting how the word "coffee" doesn't change much across European language families. Even the Russians refer to it as "ko-FE." (кофе)

Yes. We are quite good at pronounce the word coffee. But most of the Europe that I know of except Great Britain says kaffe with a sharp and short a.

 

[Strixaluco]

That sounds about right, yeah. There is much less math in medicine and I am very happy about that.

Statics is still understandable. I could also deal with the basics of strength of materials. But dynamics... Oh dear. The math part isn't too difficult, but to know what to calculate.

awww, you didn't want to learn and forget the Krebs cycle like 47 times?

Nope. Definitely not. (We didn't even get to that point.)

 

[Deadbed1968]

Statics is still understandable. I could also deal with the basics of strength of materials. But dynamics... Oh dear. The math part isn't too difficult, but to know what to calculate.

So many smart people!!

 

[Strixaluco]

The nice part of physics is that it's pretty much enough to understand, and then you'll be able to do most of the stuff. In chemistry and biology you need to actually remember very much to be able to do things efficiently.

Which is why I prefer maths and physics. I'm not good at memorising details.

 

[Strixaluco]

Alright folks. I need to finally get some proper sleep before having a 24h with my D, who manages to exhaust me in much less time. Good night!

 

[HarryHill]

Go to bed. I think of you guys at the oddest times, like watching Witcher and hearing someone talking about chaos power.

 

[Deadbed1968]

Alright folks. I need to finally get some proper sleep before having a 24h with my D, who manages to exhaust me in much less time. Good night!

Good night! Sweet dreams!

 

[Codeman93]

I’m good thank you. How are you?

Not to shabby sorry for the late post been showing my parents around