Ariel Serkin

Whatever this year brings, we know it will be full of surprises. Here’s to being able to adapt and be resilient. #nerdytshirtfriday

If there are any left when I’m done cooking 🤣

4 latkes frying in oil

The empty plate with paper towels where the finished latkes are supposed to be.

For dinner tonight, I’m making homemade applesauce and latkes. Currently, I’m making my 4th pan of latkes. On the plate are how many remain. #chanukah

Happy #chanukah and #nerdytshirtfriday celebrating the FEsTiVAl of Lights and Chemistry #OOTD
I was stopped in the hall by a Student who noticed the shirt, & then I pointed out the headband, and the response was "Represent!"
Representation always matters, especially now, even when it feels hard.

Now that the West Wing is back on Netflix, it's time for a rewatch. In the 1st 90 s there is a "news report" of a spill of 20,000 gallons of NaOH. Now I'm trying to think how I can make this into a problem that I use in class. #IteachChem

I then made chemical reactions based on my M&Ms
But sadly mixed up the colors for hydrogen and carbon 🍎🥽🧪

CH₄ + O₂ → H₂O + CO₂
N₂ +H₂ → NH₃

At an after school meeting today and there were snacks. Someone looked at my plate and said “are you going to eat all that?”
I replied that I needed enough snacks to put in my mouth so I wouldn’t talk and get myself fired. 🍎

Today’s chemistry #OOTD is another @svahausa dress (shocking, I know). I’m honoring #womeninstem with Dr Rosalind Franklin’s photograph 51. #nerdychic

This popped up on my Instagram feed and my first thought was: “what’s a potassium hydroxide dress ?”

It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic

It’s a #nerdytshirtfriday for chemistry #OOTD. Got mole problems ? Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10²³ #nerdychic

In case my chemistry #OOTD is necessary to provide evidence for my students’ comments.

It's been a hard and exhausting day of teaching, but several students said that my outfit ate, so I'll take that as a win.

How early is too early to go to bed the day that the clocks change?

As we get ready for sukkot, I’m grateful for the time with A as we celebrate the chaggim together.
And for nature for providing us with the mini pumpkins for our front yard from the ones that decomposed last year.

‎וְשָׂמַחְתָּ בְּחַגֶּךָ וְהָיִיתָ אַךְ שָׂמֵחַ

Dear Apple Watch, I’ve been up since 6 am shopping, baking, cooking, and putting up the sukkah. Please give me way more credit for all my fitness goals.

Thanks.

I think this was my favorite technical challenge on the Great British Baking Show / Bake-off

There is not enough caffeine to help the recovery from the Yom Kippur fast for #nerdytshirtfriday

For this Shabbat Shuvah and #nerdytshirtfriday I present the elemental model of the universe. To quote Carl Sagan: “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff”
We are all capable of reflection and teshuvah and are worthy of being recipients of the same.

For some reason, my students did not find my Family Feud of beakers vs flasks nearly as entertaining as I do. 🤷‍♀️ #ITeachChem

In a stressful 6 hour weeks that included
End of an engagement/LTR
Rough transition back to school
Dropping A off at his dorm (also he got clipped by a car, lockdown, etc)
Potential glaucoma diagnosis
Cancer scare

I know that I’m healing b/c I can finally enjoy reading again.

Shana Tova! My favorite pre Rosh Hashana dress from @superdesignershop ! A bee-utiful way to get ready for a sweet new year.
May we have and health and renewal this year.
(And yes, there are sugar molecules right near the bees)

Note to self continued: chocolate chip cookies will taste better when you decide to add sugar.

Yes, I noticed this in plenty of time

But not until after I tasted the batter

Moral of the story:

Always taste the batter

I’m making challah for Rosh Hashana and I tried twice to get the psyllium husk to gel and it didn’t work.

Then I realized I was using teff flour and not psyllium husk

#glutenfree #roshhashanah #chemistswhocook

Trying to voice text my kid at the grocery store and somehow Rosh Hashanah became Russia in China which is something else all together

May 5786 be much more Bohring than 5785. Looking forward to peace, quiet, and reflection.

Looking forward to continuing to move forward.
Shana Tova Tikatevu
#nerdytshirtfriday

How are things going you ask?
I wanted to take my usual allergy meds and instead took a melatonin.
At 8am

Trying to Be Like a Proton and Stay Positive for #nerdytshirtfriday

Stand Back; I’m going to try science. The 1st official #nerdytshirtfriday of the 2025-2026 schools year. Definitely not the transition to school that I would have expected/wanted for my 25th year in the classroom, but here we go.

UMass Lowell shelter-in-place lifted as investigation into armed man continues A shelter-in-place order was lifted Wednesday as an investigation into a report of an armed man on the campus of UMass Lowell continued.

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