3 down, 7 to go...

i'm alive. i don't know how it went; it was 2.5 hours of nothing but brain-to-hand. i won't find out for over a week, probably, if i passed this section or not.

one of the questions was really shitty, mostly because it was better suited to discussion or like, one of them open book exams that we don't do anymore: describe a series of experiments to determine whether orotodine monophosphate is a chemical or structural inducer of ribozyme self-cleavage in the 5' UTR of the OPRT operon. be specific and include proper controls and unambiguous methods. UNAMBIGUOUS? first, i'd synthesize some OMFG, and i would conjugate it to some WTF. After incubation with SRSLY, i would run it out and sequence the fragments of OMGWTFBBQ. then i would analyze it using some DIAF.

for fuck's sake. weekend, let our tumultuous affair begin.