August 14, 2006

• penultimate nerdiness

  so i was walking around today, trying to shake off the ever-pervasive sense of impending doom after miserably failing my last practice mcat that i gave to myself (i have to tell you, i'm the most horrible proctor in the world, i even allowed the ONE test-taker under my ward to look at the kaplan review book when her brain did not suffice. nevertheless, she still failed.)

  that was when i stumbled upon the ultimate girly panacea: the gelato shop. in the midst of devouring an icy and creamy piece of double expresso bean-flavoured heaven, i suddenly had one of those uncontrollable OCD thoughts (that are usually followed on 60 Minutes by "and then i couldn't stop the voices...the voices that told me to do it...") one of my pet peeves is having my lovely ice treat inevitably dwindle into thick, gooey grossly textured melted...stuff, and like my hardworking and stingy asian ancestors i try to eat up the gross part quickly, saving the yummy part for last. but lo and behold, mcatting has taught me:

  yummy frozen part (s) + heat ---> gross slimy melted part (l)

  L'Chatelier's principle tells us if we remove the stress of one side, it shifts the equilibrium to that same side. that means all these years when i've desperately tried to eat the gross melted part, i was only driving the reaction forward, causing MORE gross slimy melted parts to form! all these years, i've only been making the problem worse!!

  anyway, there is no reasonable conclusion to be made here (or maybe you can enlighten me), except that this entire ordeal has made me into a freakish and decidedly sociopathic nerd.

  wait, nerds are supposed to be smart, aren't they? damn it.

  • 7:10 pm
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