Love Letter to Your Thesis: Most Bittersweet (Winner)

The results are finally in! The standard of entries in this year’s competition was exceptionally high. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we did.

Beloved Thee,

I can pretend I don’t need you, but I’ll be fooling myself. I can pose I don’t want you, but I’ll be lying to myself. You are the one I’ve been dreaming of since 2017. Every morning I wake up alone, I realize you’re the missing puzzle piece.

Ever since you have stopped favouring through my NMR’s there hasn’t been a single moment passed when I haven’t thought about you. I know you have issue with me and I am apologising to you for the umpteenth failed reaction that happened in the past. I have now realised that I can’t think of my life without you. No matter how much I try but I can’t run away from all those reactions and results. Just as the earth awaits the rain after a long summer day, I wish for you in my life. My Dear Thee, would it be easy for you to forget about all the failed experiments and accidents? Do you remember when I set my first reaction and you gave confirmation through TLC? You were happy enough so you gave me back to back my NMR’s with zero impurities?

It looks that I am fine without you but I am showing off. Every day or night when I set a reaction and after TLC confirmation I go for NMR but I have no idea why it fails or give high impurities even after much vacuum dry. I am so broken nowadays with continuous failing experiments. If possible please, please, please come back to me and I promise I’ll never make you unachievable again.

Yours eternally,

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