As I mentioned, I spent this weekend in Hartford, CT at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, and it was a really fascinating and great time.
I presented my poster, and people seemed to respond very well. I spoke at length with professors from Trinity (of all places) who had chaired the session my boss presented at (her talk, btw, was excellent and made me newly excited for our work). Everyone was so warm and friendly and genuinely excited about our research, so it was a wonderful experience.
My labmate presented a project using unilateral NMR, and I did not envy the task of explaining that technique! NMR is hard to explain for PhD-toting physicists, but Daria held her own and got people really interested in those projects as well.
I came out of the conference 1 million percent certain that going forward in chemistry is the right decision, and I'm going to start application procedures (for a BS first, then the PhD) as soon as I get back from Italy. Oh, and umm, wrap up grad school at Pratt too.
It was lovely to spend a few days in Hartford at this time of year as well - we got to see my very dear friends Dan and Emily (of course I didn't take pictures - why, Vic, why??). It was such a treat to catch up and laugh with them. It looks like I'm going to be spending a bit more time in Hartford in November too (heeeee!).
I have a handful of photos in a NERM 09 set - check them out if you would like to see presenter hands and suit-wearing!
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