Students Quotes

• "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times." (C. Dickens)
• "I thought that the laptop situation worked out perfectly, and was a great idea."
• "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. (Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)." "This seems to typify the miniproject!"
• "I found it useful for other lab courses as it allowed me to model my reactions and help predict/rationalise outcomes e.g. in physical lab the modelled HOMO-LUMO gap of Hypercin predicted an absorption fairly close (well, within 50 cm-1 at least) to that observed. This helped us when selecting a dye for our solar cells."

Final Thoughts

• A Laboratory in a Backpack
• Teaching Computational Chemistry at chemical accuracies.