Science...

I used to be a scientist. Though can you be a nonpracticing scientist?
If so, I still am a scientist, but also a Blogger...
I used to read more science fiction.
I used to be a lot more radical (believe me or not...).
I used to make paper. Maybe I will again.
I used to be younger than everyone else around me. Now I am older than some of the people around me. I am still getting used to this.
I used to think, "Why would anyone go to MIT and then become a lawyer?" Oh, the irony. Actually, now I understand...

My PhD Thesis: Synthesis, characterization and application of conjugated polymers derived from ferrocene and bisphenol-A.
(http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/46/46135/tde-28032008-082754/)
Some of the polymers I sythesized, in chloroform solution, emitting blue light when under UV light excitation.

Before and after:

My MSc. dissertation: Electrochemical reduction of ortho-substituted methyl cinnamates(http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/46/46135/tde-03102006-205141/)
One of the described mechanisms: