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My experience with Chemistry Lab Fumehoods
During my time at university I found chemistry labs a haven because initially hardly anyone reacted. It’s funny because the whole lab is surrounded by glass because the whole building is glass all around with several floors. It’s sealed with no windows, just a giant air conditioning system (AC). I got a few reactions which I didn’t expect and I didn’t know why either. I fully understand how an AC system work; doesn’t exchange air with the outside environment so it didn’t make sense to me why fewer reactions. It should get worse. I then realized the fumehood on both end of the Lab we used was the reason. All the labs had this. Fumehoods are compartments that you’d do your chemical mixing of dangerous fume substances at. It’s basically a big vacuum room that sucks all the air up vents on the ceiling of the fumehood enclosed area and filtered through its friendly environment cleaning system, before release at the top of the building into the atmosphere. You only stick your hand in and perform the mixing while watching from outside through the glass separator to avoid breathing any of the dangerous gas. The labs look almost like the one below.
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I realized this so I moved to a seat right next to one of the fumehood for the rest of the semester. As soon as I did this, the allergies stopped completely. The rest of the semester was sweet but only for chemistry labs. My BIO labs were done on bio research buildings. All of them had no fumehood so the experience was horrific because these buildings were enclosed too with AC.
Those of you who will be doing chemistry at university, get close to a fumehood and you’d encounter this happy experience too. It’s evidence for those who think PATM is some form of radiation. If it was radiation, PATM wouldn’t have stopped because air doesn’t affect it. Perhaps some have done chemistry and have experienced this too; please explain to members who hasn’t gone through that experience.
You can do something similar if you’re living in an apartment by placing your fan right near the window and facing outside. The fan will suck everything from the room and blow out the window. It works better than blowing all the way across the room into the window because air bounces back and forth and sometimes blown back into the corridor. Of course the air can end up in another rooms windows but concentration level drops so you’d have far more few reactions. I’d say you’d decrease reactions by 80-90% but electric bills will probably go up.
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I realized this so I moved to a seat right next to one of the fumehood for the rest of the semester. As soon as I did this, the allergies stopped completely. The rest of the semester was sweet but only for chemistry labs. My BIO labs were done on bio research buildings. All of them had no fumehood so the experience was horrific because these buildings were enclosed too with AC.
Those of you who will be doing chemistry at university, get close to a fumehood and you’d encounter this happy experience too. It’s evidence for those who think PATM is some form of radiation. If it was radiation, PATM wouldn’t have stopped because air doesn’t affect it. Perhaps some have done chemistry and have experienced this too; please explain to members who hasn’t gone through that experience.
You can do something similar if you’re living in an apartment by placing your fan right near the window and facing outside. The fan will suck everything from the room and blow out the window. It works better than blowing all the way across the room into the window because air bounces back and forth and sometimes blown back into the corridor. Of course the air can end up in another rooms windows but concentration level drops so you’d have far more few reactions. I’d say you’d decrease reactions by 80-90% but electric bills will probably go up.
And lectures will be a nightmare for me. I attended a few at orientation, and I hate how you're packed even closer than in high school classrooms. That stuff just drives up anxiety.
Deciding between skipping and not skipping will probably be a daily battle for me, but I need to do well. I haven't gotten a second of relief in the past 4 years. The most restrictive diet I went on was gluten free, dairy free, no processed foods.
Hopefully diet will be the answer for helping this things.
Deciding between skipping and not skipping will probably be a daily battle for me, but I need to do well. I haven't gotten a second of relief in the past 4 years. The most restrictive diet I went on was gluten free, dairy free, no processed foods.
Hopefully diet will be the answer for helping this things.
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Most universities record all lectures and sometimes they record tutorials but that depends. All lectures are available online to watch or download all year round, which is why you’ll often find lecture theaters often empty….especially the really boring professors.
It helps to have a camera but they’d often not allow you to record during lecture or lab. Best to have an audio recorder that isn’t so obvious. You can run through the things you didn’t quite hear properly. Copy those recordings to your laptop/computer, date and store. Date them so you can refer back to them when needed.
It helps to have a camera but they’d often not allow you to record during lecture or lab. Best to have an audio recorder that isn’t so obvious. You can run through the things you didn’t quite hear properly. Copy those recordings to your laptop/computer, date and store. Date them so you can refer back to them when needed.
I will be starting university in less than a month and will be taking Chem. Thanks for the advice!
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Yeah, cool smellyorus! I’m happy for you. You do that and you'll enjoy chem lab time. Watch out for bio or physics labs, they don’t have fumehood. If the physics/bio labs have windows, try to sit next to a window and open them as wide as you can.
Any tips for eating in college? It'll be the first time I can try going vegetarian, as my parents have not let me to do this the past 4 years.
Depends on what university you go to and accommodation available. My university provided both accommodation and subcontracted other accommodation companies to provide these resources within campus. Normally university accommodation provides a common dining area where you eat 3 times a day and shared bathrooms. Rooms always shared among 2 or more. More lavish style accommodations are provided by subcontracted companies and you get your own bathroom, and small kitchen. You buy and cook your own food. There single rooms, pair, 3, 4, 5 ,6 etc. depending on your demands. You should choose a single but it’s a little bit expensive than pairing or more. Campus internet is provided in all forms including wireless all around campus including the accommodations. Since your ID card is also your key, don’t lose it or you’ll end up staying out in the cold at night or restricted from labs or buildings that require strict access. Find a friend or you’ll struggle since it’s not like high school where teachers push you. At university Professors won’t wait for you and if you’re in a research university like I went to, they’re more interested in their research and getting the next Nobel Prize. Students are really second priority regardless what they say.
And don’t get lost on your first day like me…lol. If the campus is big, you can easily get lost without your phone.
And don’t get lost on your first day like me…lol. If the campus is big, you can easily get lost without your phone.
Also don’t buy textbooks if it’s not compulsory. It’s a waste of money. Professors provide all the notes and internet provides everything.
Because of your problem, you’ll have trouble making friends especially the same sex. I’d say find a girl. I say it won’t be easy since many will probably reject you but don’t give up. Once you are in a relationship, you’ll be surprised how much they’d be allergic to you but still love you… and stick by you. You’ll need it because there’ll be many things you can’t do; she will provide. If she’s brilliant, then that’s a plus. Over time, she’ll develop some kind of resistance and become less allergic over time.
I'm not sure about your university but stores should be around. There were huge malls and stores everywhere near my university so I never got worried about food.
Haha thanks again for all the advice. I'm living in a double with no kitchen, but I'm lucky to be rooming with one of my best friends. He seems to have the best immunity to me of anyone I've ever met, outside of my parents and sister. I have no explanation for why he never had to build immunity. From day 1, he barely reacted to me.
The girls thing will be a work in progress...lol. I'm a perceptive person, and any visible discomfort just lowers my confidence. And participating in large social events is hard with this thing and all.
The girls thing will be a work in progress...lol. I'm a perceptive person, and any visible discomfort just lowers my confidence. And participating in large social events is hard with this thing and all.
I agree, I’ve met someone like that. At the beginning of my stay while I waited for an available single room, I shared with other dudes and one particular guy was resistant to some exceptional level. At the time he had stomach problems and his room was full of Chinese medicine and wouldn’t except modern medicine. He said he’d had GI problems for a long time and only relied on Chinese medicine. It makes sense to me now why he wasn’t allergic like the others. We weren’t different after all. But I agree there are people out there resistant for some unknown reason. I hope you enjoy university and come back to share or maybe find a cure to this thing. I hope many more young people with PATM would be strong enough to take up the challenge. We can’t find a cure or treatment unless we’re educated enough to understand the molecular world.
I hope one day, you’ll come back here and show us more…. and probably run a research on this.
I hope one day, you’ll come back here and show us more…. and probably run a research on this.
There are software and utilities for almost anything so make sure you get them before going to university. You can buy them and often cheap or provided for free by the university. There are some programs that can help you but you’ll have to find it on your own. For mathematics you’ll need Mathematica, it’s offered with a small fee. For statistics the programs are often provided. For bio and meds, you’ll need a stats package like JMP, IBM SPSS, R, Statistica, Stata etc.
For chemistry you’ll need something ChemOffice. You’ll need reference software such as Endnotes, mendeley etc.
While many of these softwares are provided for free or under student license by the university I’ve noticed many students come with their machines preinstalled with all the latest software, which were pirated. I don’t recommend this but I’m just pointing out something I observed. Many of the books are available online via pdf on pirated sites. One dude had our chemistry textbooks on pdf which he shared with other students. Said he got it from pirated sites.
For chemistry you’ll need something ChemOffice. You’ll need reference software such as Endnotes, mendeley etc.
While many of these softwares are provided for free or under student license by the university I’ve noticed many students come with their machines preinstalled with all the latest software, which were pirated. I don’t recommend this but I’m just pointing out something I observed. Many of the books are available online via pdf on pirated sites. One dude had our chemistry textbooks on pdf which he shared with other students. Said he got it from pirated sites.
You seem to be quite young as well since pirated sites haven't been around too long, what did you study if I may ask?
Hi @Smellyorus, I’m not young, I wish I was and that I can rewind back time. I just happened to have taken far too many courses in various areas because remember none of us knew exactly what PATM was. I had wander around taking course through the many disciplines.
Btw, pirated shared materials & software started very early but it was mostly through closed network run by nerds – mostly university graduates. You can ask the computer nerds for a copy of a software and he’d pull it off from a group from maybe another university. But around 1999 napster took the world by storm. For the first time ordinary dudes didn’t rely on nerds to grab their pirated material.
Btw, pirated shared materials & software started very early but it was mostly through closed network run by nerds – mostly university graduates. You can ask the computer nerds for a copy of a software and he’d pull it off from a group from maybe another university. But around 1999 napster took the world by storm. For the first time ordinary dudes didn’t rely on nerds to grab their pirated material.
The whole purpose of going to uni was to find what is PATM all about. It turned out it was harder than I thought especially PATM made it hard to study. Sorry I can't answer more personal questions because it can reveal my identity easily.
Yea that's fine, was just curious.
Have you read the results from MeBO? It seems we know what PATM is. Jon... posted the results. I don't like it. So sad.
I read through your posts but will watch the video later. You seemed pretty optimistic at first. Are you leaning towards it being a genetic issue?
Can you give me a quick summary of what you think it is. The main posts are hard to follow because they're all over the place.
@Smellyorus
We haven’t been identified in the 3 groups, TMAU2, Fecal body odor, Bromhidrosis, however it all comes to two causes only, leakygut and amino-acid degradation.
TMAU2-> amino aicd degradation
Bromhidrosis -> malregulation of the tight junctions in the ileum + amino acid degradation
Fecal BO -> amino acid degradation
We haven’t been identified in the 3 groups, TMAU2, Fecal body odor, Bromhidrosis, however it all comes to two causes only, leakygut and amino-acid degradation.
TMAU2-> amino aicd degradation
Bromhidrosis -> malregulation of the tight junctions in the ileum + amino acid degradation
Fecal BO -> amino acid degradation
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