How Chem Lab Made Me a Better Dev

Uh Isopropanal?

I suppose that proves the point—or I wonder if he would have made a good chemist had he stuck with it.

"The best part was writing the lab report before doing the lab."

That never worked for me, something unexpected always turned up and had to be documented. That meant a rewrite, my best results looked messy with scratch-outs, corrections, etc.