Unfortunately, I couldn't room with the roommate I had my freshman year, so I had a different roommate my sophomore year. Honestly, my experiences could have been WAY worse, but nonetheless I wanted to punch her. So here are a few brief things:
-I got stuck putting my dresser in the closet, leaving me almost no room to hang clothes. She, on the other hand, could hang all of her clothes, but hung only about two things.
-She talks in her sleep...in Spanish.
-Her alarm was really loud (you could hear it while taking a shower) and it'd take her 5-10 minutes to wake up and turn it off.
-And then she wouldn't turn it off right, and it'd go off at random times during the day.
-She'd whisper/talk to herself...in Spanish
-She was ALWAYS in the room. I never had any alone time.
-She never wanted the window open when it was 90 degrees outside.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Product Review: Neutrogena Grapefruit Scrub
Since I'm obsessed with "goo" and hoarding it (shampoo, lotion, etc.) I figured I'd publish my reviews on stuff I've tried.
Neutrogena is a brand I always buy. It's one of the top skin care brands and I trust it. I don't break out much, but I always have at least one pimple or whitehead on my face. I'm on a quest to find the "holy grail" of facial cleansers.
This stuff definitely exfoliates your skin...maybe a little too much. It felt like I was rubbing sandpaper on my face. However, I didn't notice any odd side effects (except dry skin). It didn't make me break out or anything like that, but I didn't really notice my acne improving. So I threw it out when it was empty and I'm probably not going to buy it again. However, it did smell good :)
I know Neutrogena also makes a cleanser version of this that comes in pump form. I haven't tried it, and don't plan on it. There's also a body wash and cleanser wipes.
Prices (Target):
Scrub, 4.2 oz: 6.99
Cleanser, 6.0 oz: 6.49
Body Wash, 8.5 oz: 6.79
Wipes (25): 6.99
Feel free to share your experiences below!
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
How to Understand Girls
Why hello there! Girls are majestic fucking creatures, and most guys think they understand us, but they really don't. I watched Jenna Marbles' video "Things Boys Don't Understand" and I decided to make a list of things that can make life a bit easier for guys. Who knows? Maybe reading this will make it easier for you to pick up chicks, or easier to get your girlfriend to ave sex with you. I'm unlocking a few secrets.
1.) Stop yelling at me and complaining that I take too long in the bathroom. It takes time to come out looking like a million bucks. And don't stress us out, or else it will take way longer.
2.) When I'm in the car with you, don't roll down the windows. It fucks up my hair and then I'm a bitch the rest of the day.
3.) Girls get friend zoned, too. Stop fucking complaining.
4.) Girls fart and poop, too! MIND BLOWN!
5.) Don't bother me when I'm shopping. It's leisure time. If you leave me alone, I'll be done faster. (I might let you come into the dressing room with me!)
6.) We know we're pretty and beautiful, but deny it to look modest. The more compliments, the better!
7.) Sometimes we like to dress up and show off our goods. Stop calling us sluts. It's rude (Unless you really know the person)
8.) It hurts when you lay on my hair.
9.) If you smell bad, I'm not gonna want to have sex with you.
10.) If you say something about my outfit, YOUR COMMENT IS SET IN STONE! You can't change it. If you say my outfit is "ok" or "nice" I can never wear it again in confidence. (I need to shopping for a new outfit then!)
1.) Stop yelling at me and complaining that I take too long in the bathroom. It takes time to come out looking like a million bucks. And don't stress us out, or else it will take way longer.
2.) When I'm in the car with you, don't roll down the windows. It fucks up my hair and then I'm a bitch the rest of the day.
3.) Girls get friend zoned, too. Stop fucking complaining.
4.) Girls fart and poop, too! MIND BLOWN!
5.) Don't bother me when I'm shopping. It's leisure time. If you leave me alone, I'll be done faster. (I might let you come into the dressing room with me!)
6.) We know we're pretty and beautiful, but deny it to look modest. The more compliments, the better!
7.) Sometimes we like to dress up and show off our goods. Stop calling us sluts. It's rude (Unless you really know the person)
8.) It hurts when you lay on my hair.
9.) If you smell bad, I'm not gonna want to have sex with you.
10.) If you say something about my outfit, YOUR COMMENT IS SET IN STONE! You can't change it. If you say my outfit is "ok" or "nice" I can never wear it again in confidence. (I need to shopping for a new outfit then!)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Scientists use sound waves to levitate liquids, improve pharmaceuticals
Scientists use sound waves to levitate liquids, improve pharmaceuticals
ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2012) — It's not a magic trick and it's not sleight of hand -- scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use sound waves to levitate individual droplets of solutions containing different pharmaceuticals. While the connection between levitation and drug development may not be immediately apparent, a special relationship emerges at the molecular level.
At the molecular level, pharmaceutical structures fall into one of two categories: amorphous or crystalline. Amorphous drugs typically are more efficiently taken up by the body than their crystalline cousins; this is because amorphous drugs are both more highly soluble and have a higher bioavailability, suggesting that a lower dose can produce the desired effect.
"One of the biggest challenges when it comes to drug development is in reducing the amount of the drug needed to attain the therapeutic benefit, whatever it is," said Argonne X-ray physicist Chris Benmore, who led the study.
"Most drugs on the market are crystalline -- they don't get fully absorbed by the body and thus we aren't getting the most efficient use out of them," added Yash Vaishnav, Argonne Senior Manager for Intellectual Property Development and Commercialization.
Getting pharmaceuticals from solution into an amorphous state, however, is no easy task. If the solution evaporates while it is in contact with part of a vessel, it is far more likely to solidify in its crystalline form. "It's almost as if these substances want to find a way to become crystalline," Benmore said.
In order to avoid this problem, Benmore needed to find a way to evaporate a solution without it touching anything. Because liquids conform to the shape of their containers, this was a nearly impossible requirement -- so difficult, in fact, that Benmore had to turn to an acoustic levitator, a piece of equipment originally developed for NASA to simulate microgravity conditions.
Levitation or "containerless processing" can form pristine samples that can be probed in situ with the high-energy X-ray beam at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. "This allows amorphization of the drug to be studied while it is being processed," said Rick Weber, who works on the project team at the synchrotron.
The acoustic levitator uses two small speakers to generate sound waves at frequencies slightly above the audible range -- roughly 22 kilohertz. When the top and bottom speakers are precisely aligned, they create two sets of sound waves that perfectly interfere with each other, setting up a phenomenon known as a standing wave.
At certain points along a standing wave, known as nodes, there is no net transfer of energy at all. Because the acoustic pressure from the sound waves is sufficient to cancel the effect of gravity, light objects are able to levitate when placed at the nodes.
Although only small quantities of a drug can currently be "amorphized" using this technique, it remains a powerful analytical tool for understanding the conditions that make for the best amorphous preparation, Vaishnav explained.
Argonne researchers have already investigated more than a dozen different pharmaceuticals, and the laboratory's Technology Development & Commercialization Division is currently pursuing a patent for the method. Technology Development & Commercialization is also interested in partnering with the pharmaceutical industry to develop the technology further as well as to license it for commercial development.
After adapting the technology for drug research, the Argonne scientists teamed up with Professors Stephen Byrn and Lynne Taylor at the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy at Purdue University and Jeffery Yarger of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State University. The group is now working on identifying which drugs the levitation instrumentation will impact most strongly.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Laser-powered 'needle' promises pain-free injections
Laser-powered 'needle' promises pain-free injections
ScienceDaily (Sep. 13, 2012) — From annual flu shots to childhood immunizations, needle injections are among the least popular staples of medical care. Though various techniques have been developed in hopes of taking the "ouch" out of injections, hypodermic needles are still the first choice for ease-of-use, precision, and control.
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A new laser-based system, however, that blasts microscopic jets of drugs into the skin could soon make getting a shot as painless as being hit with a puff of air.
The system uses an erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet, or Er:YAG, laser to propel a tiny, precise stream of medicine with just the right amount of force. This type of laser is commonly used by dermatologists, "particularly for facial esthetic treatments," says Jack Yoh, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea, who developed the device along with his graduate students. Yoh and his team describe the injector in a paper published today in the Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optics Letters.
The laser is combined with a small adaptor that contains the drug to be delivered, in liquid form, plus a chamber containing water that acts as a "driving" fluid. A flexible membrane separates these two liquids.Each laser pulse, which lasts just 250 millionths of a second, generates a vapor bubble inside the driving fluid. The pressure of that bubble puts elastic strain on the membrane, causing the drug to be forcefully ejected from a miniature nozzle in a narrow jet a mere 150 millionths of a meter (micrometers) in diameter, just a little larger than the width of a human hair.
"The impacting jet pressure is higher than the skin tensile strength and thus causes the jet to smoothly penetrate into the targeted depth underneath the skin, without any splashback of the drug," Yoh says. Tests on guinea pig skin show that the drug-laden jet can penetrate up to several millimeters beneath the skin surface, with no damage to the tissue. Because of the narrowness and quickness of the jet, it should cause little or no pain, Yoh says. "However, our aim is the epidermal layer," which is located closer to the skin surface, at a depth of only about 500 micrometers. This region of the skin has no nerve endings, so the method "will be completely pain-free," he says.
In previous studies, the researchers used a laser wavelength that was not well absorbed by the water of the driving liquid, causing the formation of tiny shock waves that dissipated energy and hampered the formation of the vapor bubble. In the new work, Yoh and colleagues use a laser with a wavelength of 2,940 nanometers, which is readily absorbed by water. This allows the formation of a larger and more stable vapor bubble "which then induces higher pressure on the membrane," he explains. "This is ideal for creating the jet and significantly improves skin penetration."
Although other research groups have developed similar injectors, "they are mechanically driven," using piston-like devices to force drugs into the skin, which gives less control over the jet strength and the drug dosage, Yoh says. "The laser-driven microjet injector can precisely control dose and the depth of drug penetration underneath the skin. Control via laser power is the major advancement over other devices, I believe."
Yoh is now working with a company to produce low-cost replaceable injectors for clinical use. "In the immediate future, this technology could be most easily adopted to situations where small doses of drugs are injected at multiple sites," he says. "Further work would be necessary to adopt it for scenarios like mass vaccine injections for children."
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
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