Crazy Chem Test aka CCT

Chem RA CCT was disturbingly reminiscent of Math RA CCTs/TAs... they bear the common stamps of "a killer test", namely, insufficient time to complete the paper, difficult or otherwise indirect questions... and everyone screaming (almost literally) after time's up (and we're forced to hand up, even if we haven't finished writing).

Crazy paper lah. Most of the question i just chiong though, start scribbling and punching calculator even before read finish question, no time to think - and dun talk about checking. Yeah it's fun (i'm not being sarcastic) and challenging, but hopefully can pass lah. Not enough time... (all the CCT also, since they cram into 45min... and btw the 50min periods also very rush, but it's sure better than canceling 1 class).

But nonetheless, chem is fun. Just ask my last year RE partner (his identity is probably an open secret) - who, during RE last year, while Mrs Neo and I were both not looking, accidentally stumbled on the 1001 reactions that can be performed with the bench chemicals (as well as some others we used in our experiments: i.e. bromine water, sodium thiosulfate [which can decolourise G2 ink!], diethyl ether etc.).

RISC should do more crazy demos for curious P6s during open house... like 16M sulfuric acid + water (for the uninitiated, this is a highly exothermic (read: explosive) reaction), or burning nitrocellulose... heehee

Argh... probably getting back the marks next week. Hopefully i don't get homolytically cleaved by hyperreactive free radicals (in the form of evil little red digits dancing in brownian motion on the top right of the exam script)... bleah i'm delirious again.