Lot's Wife Edition 1 2016
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INTERVIEW<br />
“How fucking cool<br />
is chemistry?”<br />
by Grace Wang and Anagi<br />
Wickremasinghe<br />
Photography by<br />
Grace Wang<br />
Working in chemistry isn’t just for squares.<br />
We spoke with musician and Magic: The<br />
Gathering player RICKI WILCOX about<br />
fashion, chemistry, and identifying with<br />
Hans Moleman.<br />
So Ricki, what’s your job at Monash?<br />
I’m working with the 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd year<br />
Chemistry crew. At the moment I’m just doing some<br />
casual work, but over the last few months I’ve<br />
demonstrated first year classes (I actually started a<br />
band with a few of my students!), I’ve designed and<br />
presented some chemical experiments with my best<br />
friend for some John Monash Science students that<br />
had come from all around the world, and have just<br />
been doing odd jobs that needed to be done around<br />
the chemistry department.<br />
What inspired you to pursue chemistry?<br />
It actually wasn’t until very late into high<br />
school that I realized I wanted to do chemistry, in<br />
fact in Year 10, when I was filling in my VCE forms, I<br />
didn’t even list chemistry!<br />
It wasn’t until Year 11 when I actually delved<br />
into chemistry in more depth that I fell in love with it.<br />
I play a card game called Magic: The Gathering, and<br />
I love this game because it’s a system. The game<br />
has rules and restrictions that each player has to<br />
follow in order to come out victorious, and chemistry<br />
is a lot like that. There are the physical laws that you<br />
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