#stem tag

[wondrfulwndrful]

they need to invent new places to put indicies

[drtrinitysantos]

[sexy scientist voice] genes are passed down from parent to offspring. unless you're a bacterium displaying horizontal gene transfer. often determining traits like bioluminescence, disease resistance, even a peptidoglycan coat. [sexily caresses my lapel so you notice my sexy ginormous honking bazongas which are sexy btw] my coat is lab.

[spine-lizard]

I finally have some free time to take some pictures and post them! I can't believe how busy I've been this semester... I took these right after my Biomaterials exam and that's why the calculator is out, I think it makes a nice touch though.

[allypacino]

just realised that some people are like actually good at math and do like actual science oh god i'm only in this for the funny looking animals

[anonymous-scapegoat]

fun fun programming time im gonna talk thru a problem and u can ignore this but!

i’ve been trying to think thru the process of coding an averaging program in java (using netbeans, if that makes a difference) and i think (i think) i’ve got the steps all worked out but i don’t know how to do some of it so like - to average an unquantified number of user inputs you would set up a for-loop to accept input from the user of the program until they input a preprogrammed quit code (obviously a letter or string of letters in this case because if you used a number there’d be the possibility that the quit code is actually one of the numbers they want to average and that would be an issue) ending the loop. once you have all your inputs you would then put all of them into a preexisting but previously empty(?) array, and then use (fjjkfsdl i can’t think of the name but the thing) to determine the number of elements in the array (+1 because array element 1 is 0). u would add all user inputs (or find the sum of all array elements? adfks working with an unknown number of values is complicated) and then using that sum divide it by the number of array elements and that would be your answer, system.out.println(”your average is” +averageAnswer); end of story - but!!! i dont know how to transfer user inputs into an array and i also dont know how to work with arrays the way i need to and like!! there could be an easier way to do it but i can’t think of one

(bc like in theory if i knew the user was only putting in 7 quantities i could do this super easily, its the variability thats killing me) (if they can put in as many values as they want that makes like every single variable super indefinite in that everything depends on everything else and u can’t just use 7 u have to use int noOfUserInputs; and noOfUserInputs depends on the amnt of elements in the array and its just this super long bs thing) (ughghgh)

[drtrinitysantos]

I love being a scientist. one of my people texted me to say they were looking for something on the roof but couldn't find it and I told them to check by the bees

[drtrinitysantos]

the chemistry department was celebrating mole day with a periodic table of cupcakes so obviously I had to take bismuth

[drtrinitysantos]

who up grassing their hopper (schistocerca americana)