May 27, 2021 | This week has just been the beginning of the wildness that is to come for the summer. Sunday started out with my dad and I moving my stuff into campus housing after the 12-hour drive from Pennsylvania to South Carolina. The housing here is very nice! They even have a kitchen with a dishwasher (Cornell […]

July 21, 2014 | In the lab. Monday started and ended with running samples on Shimadzu. I intended to finish all the samples, and so ended up staying until 10:30 pm in the lab. Today, on Wednesday, Dan and I realized that two samples (two vials with samples of  pH=2) for dissolved organic carbon analysis (CDOM) were missing even […]

July 14, 2014 | Let me start with the end of Week 4. On Saturday evening, I had an opportunity to meet with other students from India. My roommate organized a potluck at our house, and our culinary expert Tanya coordinated the cooking process. I had just taken my once-in-a-half-year long nap when the cooking started: At seven in […]

July 5, 2014 | I am coming to suspect that time does cheat on us, poor people. Keep a constant eye on it while racing it – you will at most be in line with it; take your eyes off for a moment – time will make a leap of two moments, skipping while we are not watching. However, […]

June 10, 2014 | This weekly blog I will be writing for the next nine weeks  will cover my experiences working with Dr. Tufford at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Dr. Tufford is interested in watershed ecology and water management, particularly the roles of wetlands in watershed ecosystems and potential effects of climate and climate change on land […]