Alhamdulillah, all praises and compliments go to Allah, The Lord of al-Amin.
Today’s experiment ran quite well except for the last step where my lab mate asked me whether to cool the solution in ice/bath or not. I misunderstood her query and immidiately poured my solution into ice/water beaker. Instead, I ought to COOL the solution in ice bath, NOT POUR it into ice/water beaker. But I manage to recrystallize the solution again with butanol though lost some amount of crystal.May be on Wednesday, I come back to organic lab again to determine the weight and melting point of my product.
Another depressing result is that my 3rd step in synthesizing 4-nitroaniline was failed. The product came out to be unweighable. Hence I cant submit it to Corin for assessment. The only thing I could do is to determine the melting point and explain in my lab reports the failure of my experiment. Last time I got C for oxidation of benzoin, this time I probably got D. Hm..may be there I had done something wrong. Dr Rose always said, "Always look at the wisdom behind every event". Definitely I like chemistry because of this. We learn from mistakes, correct it and not to repeat it in the future. U can’t learn something by not making mistakes. The mistakes allow u to learn something new and unexpected events in life.
Again, Alhamdulillah there is no practical lab next week, one-day-off. Aha.. today Jeff return our mid-sem-test (quiz to be honest), and I got perfect score for the Quantum Mechanics test. Subhanallah, my hard work had been paid off.I’m really grateful. Waiting for another results; Mid-sem Vector Calculus, Thermal Physics and Organic Chem tests.
Muhammad will surely be happy if I tell him this. He has been inspiring me and advising me to take good sleep, drink apple juice and recite the Qur’an b4 the tests. Do u know? Apple juice boost ur brain activity. May be u guys should try it. In fact most of my housemates drink apple juice too. The doctor said, "an apple a day keep the doctor away".
Aha..I had better off to sleep. Tomorrow I gonna wake up early, do some past exams and tutes questions. Then recite the Qur’an after fajr prayer. Let’s begin my day with another cheerful and beatiful stride.
The sad part, I missed Sheikh Aslam Abu Ismail talk on Sunday due to lethargy. I sleep after dawn and woke up at 12.10pm. The talk should start at 1.00pm at Maidstone Mosque. Aha.. I’ve to wait for another month to listen to his beautiful voice of doing dakwah.
Opss..I got another assignment to be submitted next week, Vector Calculus. Stil waiting for Quantum Mechanics and Thermal Physics assignments. Life is getting harder but managable.
