Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Day 3 - Into the Chemistry Deep End (January 29, 2014)

So today was all Dr. Bamforth, Charlie, as he asked us to call him. The best thing is he's a riot. I think I had a smile on my face the whole time. I truly am looking forward to every thing he says. The bad, well not bad, but challenging thing is the chemistry. It started off easy and I was feeling super confident because I knew it all. But it got hard... fast. We hit organic chemistry of amino acids, buffers, oxidation and reduction, alpha and beta closed ring forms of glucose, betaglucens vs starch, competitive vs non-competitive inhibitors for the active site on the enzyme for the substrate, etc, and it all got a little squishy, to say the least. But it was all great fun, truly. Time to go read!
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  1. D4January 29, 2014 at 7:27 PM

    I am happy to hear you are enjoying beer school, so far.....

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  2. Honey BadgerJanuary 29, 2014 at 8:30 PM

    I stepped on a college campus today, first time in 19 years, had heart palpitations when I walked into the student union. But you doing this for you makes me consider doing something for me. Even if it's just investigating my options. Cheers

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    1. UnknownJanuary 29, 2014 at 8:43 PM

      I'm so glad. You should investigate. I know starting anything new is scary but the cliche is true... we only live once. And now that I've jumped off this cliff, I feel like I should have done it sooner. You are so incredibly capable. You can do it!

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