The sad fact is that since the design project was first posted last Wednesday I have gone to the library every single day except Saturday, when we had a board game night and spent most of the day cooking or cleaning. Every day.

I know now that silicon can etch anisotropically or isotropically, though I couldn't tell you which is which. No one really knows how phosphoric acid etches silicon nitride, but darned if the professor isn't making us figure that one out. I know more about silicon and the "integrated circuit" fabrication than I thought possible.

Ugh.

Drug design, however, is quite interesting. One of the professors is the one who taught Bioprocess last semester and he says things like "How do you determine the lethal dose of a drug? Well, you start with a lot of rats..." This week we're having a guest lecturer from the chemistry department, who's combining our class with his advanced biochemistry class. He knows all the backstories of drugs that've been developed, like how the statins that are used to lower cholesterol were initially found when a guy in Japan who really liked mushrooms decided to see if mushrooms could help with cholesterol problems for no better reason than that he liked mushrooms.

At least, according to the teacher.

Oops, time for Beauty and the Geek. That shows hilarious. And so similar to my life.