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Monday, October 03, 2005
Well, since Amreet wrote such a descriptive one...
I left my home at 6:00am, not knowing how long it would take me to reach Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Read through my Organic Chemistry notes along the North East Line and slept through the East West line all the way till Boon Lay. Took 199 to NTU, with the most vague of all instructions from friends studying in NTU, "Just get down from the bus when you see a lot of people getting down."
Along the journey to my supervisor's journey, my initial thoughts about NTU was, "This place is big, pretty and green!". The chill of the morning air greeted my skin wherever I walked, the silence reminds me that the world in NTU is only just waking up. Somehow, I reached my destination, the office of my supervisor. The corridor lining the staff offices had the musty new smell, it looked new as well!
He arrived, and talked to me briefly regarding some administrative matters, then he asked one of his students to mentor me along with another lady, a research assistant working in one of the research labs. We took a lift to the basement 2, well, not much of a basement since NTU is set on a hill, just like Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP), only much bigger. The lab was well equiped with all the things one would need to do organic chemistry experiments, I was tasked to start small, with the first step of a whole series of reactions, and was given a general orientation of the lab as well as the people there.
I left at 5:50pm, it was a slow day, but as I remember and re-learn my techniques, so will the pace of the reactions, and soon, you guys would probably see me staying back beyond my allocated timing. ;)
Terence Seah.
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