Steve Mirsky: Why would you have a masters in chemistry?
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2012
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Questions arise when Steve Mirsky is introduced to his friend's new girlfriend, and he relies on his past experience to help -- specifically his degree in chemistry. "It's almost like you're army buddies.... It's midnight, it's just the two of you, and you're going through this labyrinth of dusty medical records."
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, |
| 0:26.5 | where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.4 | This week's storyteller is Steve Murski. |
| 0:33.2 | The story was recorded in October 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 0:37.9 | The theme of the event was chemistry. |
| 0:43.9 | So I was also an awesome, horrible graduate student in chemistry. |
| 0:53.5 | I went to Cornell University in the |
| 0:57.0 | chem program. And I was not a good student. I was a pretty decent lab instructor, though. |
| 1:04.0 | I had the honors freshman chemistry students. These were kids who, even as freshmen knew, |
| 1:09.0 | they were already majoring in chemistry. They weren't pre-med. They were going to be chemists. |
| 1:13.6 | And so I was the TA. I don't even remember what TA stands for it. |
| 1:18.6 | Does anybody remember? |
| 1:19.6 | Teaching assistant, that's it. |
| 1:22.6 | And so I ran the lab. |
| 1:25.6 | And just to give you an example of how sometimes I was able to reach some of the KEM undergraduate |
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