Thermodynamite!

A review of thermo for the first part of lecture, then Kinetics and Catalysis.

I can't tell too easily, but it really does look like people area already starting to pass on lecture. What was a very packed lecture hall now looks half-empty. I'm not qualified to give a breakdown of med students vs. SMP students so I'd assume it's a shared "lack of burden..."

Well, there's not much to talk about regarding class since it is a review lecture, so instead I'll talk about my brand new note-taking pen.

Pilot FriXion is an erasable pen. Sort of. A lot of erasable pens in the past had cruddy ink that would gunk up and clutter. FriXion, on the other hand, doesn't have that gunky effect. It does have a runny effect and comes in as more of a dark gray than as a pure black pen that has a bit of an ink-pooling effect at the end of the stroke, but just using it, you can tell that the ink is of higher quality.

The end of the FriXion consists of a rubber nib. It's not really an eraser, and you won't erase any pencils with it. Using, IRONICALLY, thermodynamically sensitive ink, by using friction, you can make the ink DISAPPEAR. Entirely. It doesn't leave behind colored streaks if you put in a minor amount of effort into it. The only thing left behind is the imprint of the pen, and you can immediately write over it, making it less of a disappearing-ink method that prevents re-writing. They're a bit expensive, ~$3 for a pair, but I got a steal at 2 2-packs for the price of one pack. Win.