BearcatPA

That was a joke, but I'm happy you decided to take it as if it was a personal attack on you. Personally I don't know how non-chem programs work but provided you're safely dressed everyone couldn't care less what you are wearing in lab. Most of the people you're working with will be from out of the country and will not be anywhere close to "recent" or "fashionable" in terms of how they dress. What I said is what you would hear if you had asked a prof in the field. Just don't be a total slob when you're TA'ing a lab and you'll be fine. Even then, there are some great people in my group that dress...less than ideally as far as tidiness goes that would get away with it due to the quality of their work. There's a good tradeoff really between how good you are at the field and how much your already asinine TA duties can be kind of turned away from.

Your work is more important than wardrobe quite honestly. Prada purses and armani suits don't get publications.

I was just there this weekend....coming from PA it's totally fine. It's really not humid imo. Plus every building I was in was rigorously air conditioned to the point where I took a buttondown with me inside the newer chem building as it was that cold. Speaking of moving to town, I just got an offer from a professor for paid summer research so I'll be there by next week So we'll see just how hot this summer gets haha.

I can't help but laugh at this. You know damn well that's not going to happen and we're going to keep having to kiss ass.

I too love oakland - lots of nights spent there at the O or at my friend's apartment after drunken stumbling walks back from the south side

Haha that's t shirt weather.

I'll be coming from Pittsburgh, so I feel your pain

Very nice chandra, who in particular? I was looking at doing Gladysz as he does some really cool nanotech oriented things. Organometallic is definitely something I am looking into as well so we're sure to end up close to each other. Did you take a visit to campus at all? I am trying to get ahold of someone to arrange a visit but so far noone has responded.

Do you have someone in mind you would like to work with already? Also, to anyone in Chem. already at TAMU - I see that we have to take ACS tests as an entrance exam. The website claims you must score over 50% on these - what happens if you don't do this? Do they just make you take that class again with the undergrads and pass it?

Just got accepted for a PhD in chemistry, any fellow chem students there? I'd love to hear who everyone is going to work with.