Right now it seems that William has put together his derivation of the rate law. Before we've decided to use two experiments for our demonstrations. One has an interesting procedure coming from journal of chemical education with measuring the rate of burning candles and using counting coins as a way to demonstrate rate laws. Another rate law demonstration, the one that I'm responsible of, is regarding to a reaction of hydrolysis of benzyl chloride. After Nathan and I finish our procedure we should be OK with submitting the paper after a review.

I am going home in China this summer, and stay there for like three months doing whatever, eating my parents for the last time and live as free as possible. I am thinking about learning to drive, learn some basics of piano keyboard/guitar from a friend. I've tried that music thing 4 years ago and failed. This time I may be able to make it. I'll come back to US for graduate school at Yale University, New Haven Connecticut. That seems to be a more interesting city there. And after years of school I'll shoot for being a professor.

I've met with my teammates and understood our project. We have written the proposal. Regarding to the content of our project (lab manual for experiments regarding the rate law) we've decided that William will do the derivation/equation of the law and Nathan and I will be doing the experimental part. We have not talked about it yet but I think in the end we will be working together on the other more subtle part of the manual.

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http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/03/19/ad-campaign-is-unethical.p...

My most memorable good group experience was from a website project I did in high school with a friend. We like the idea of building our own website and we are very driven to make the website popular. We work pretty hard to put useful information on it and we are happy about the popularity it obtains.

#1 A job manual for the student biological lab assistant part time job working in a research group at Hansen Hall here.

I've done a job manual for this purpose before I left. It's like at most 2-3 pages single line so I don't know if it's too short. But I am sure I can write a more comprehensive one.

#2 A job manual for the CHM116C peer leader

I did this job but never had I done it. The work is still going on. I met some trouble while doing this job...perhaps a manual with all those experience is useful. not sure about the length, but I can include case study...so

well I think I need to put the in-text citation, graphs (and the exampl quote from the source) and better design up later on.

The image of synthetic biology, representing using biological parts to build biomachineries.

http://syntheticbiology.org/

1. The book discussed that high schools in some areas have low educational quality in contrast to those in the "rich areas" and dont help the students learn; but it didn't go into details as how this phenomenon came to be?

2. The book mentioned the current culture that makes the students not interested in careers in science. The book also didn't go into details on that. I wonder why. Is the low payment of the career (compared to the effort to put into) the major problem?