Seminar was very similar to seminar back home. Somewhat interesting, which gradually erodes into boring if you don’t care about the article. Except people really aren’t obligated to go. And they don’t say what the paper is before. So good grad students go – and then often get stuck listening to something they don’t give a shit about. At lunch, on the walk back we discussed this, and the other members of the lab really liked the format of ours – mainly that you had access to the paper before, so if you were interested, you can get more out of it, because there is at least the opportunity to read it before.

Random Fact of the Day:
Bleach does not exist in Germany. Sodium Hypochloride does, but it is not commercially available. So, it’s really only used as a chemical by scientists. And therefore it is disposed of properly – not just down the drain.