it has been a very long day

I had my first in-person organic chem lab (4 goddamn hours long). It was full of 20-year-old pre-med bros performing the traditional academic!masculinity* Opening Day classics, such as:

It was tiring. Anyway, I didn’t participate in it because I was working carefully on my fucking lab, and I think that was very cool and sexy of me.

A lot of the work this semester will be independent for pandemic reasons, but I did manage to land a bench across from another quiet dude. He’s cute and has a beat-to-shit baseball cap and his handwriting is atrocious. And he’s got a deft hand for the fiddly bits and takes care of his glassware, so he’s basically a perfect lab partner.

Tomorrow I’ve got a physics lab, which should be less… douchey.

[*do we still use the exclamation point notation to indicate a variant of the thing? was that a fanfic thing and I absorbed it?]