I got Feb 3. And it's a SWOLE entry.
“A DAY IN MY LIFE
7:00 – Wake up, not sure exactly what time it is so I get up and go check the clock. It’s 7:00, too early, so I go back to my nice warm bed.
7:30 – Wake up for real. Morning prayer and shower, then breakfast (hot dog w/sauerkraut & shrooms and a saffron pill because the voices tell me that I and everyone I love will die if I don’t.
8:30 – Ready to leave. Pet kitty cats and get going. Listen to “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” while riding.
9:10 – Get to school and freeze for a few seconds before heading up to class. Only 1 flight of stairs and my legs hurt. Someone knocked down the Periodic Table, so I put it back up and try to bend the hooks to make it stay. Nope, my hands are too soft and the papercut isn’t helping. Listen to Megyn Kelly show while waiting for class to start.
9:31 – Can’t connect to teh interwebz for some reason. [REDACTEDNETWORK1] just plain won’t connect, and the network login page for [REDACTEDNETWORK2] expired, so yeah…
9:35 – Class starts. Test #2 opens on Friday. Subjects are:
- Instantaneous rate (graphical + differentiation)
- Reaction mechanisms + catalysis
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I hate it when he changes the slide.
Class opens w/example of second order reaction, breezed thru. Then learned formula for half life of second order reactions, which… doesn’t exist, you have to modify the normal second order formula.
9:45 – Move on to reaction mechanisms, whatever that means. I definitely need to do some outside work of my own, starting with reading the textbook section for it. There has to be a rhyme and reason to it!!
10:18 – Briefly cover catalysis and on to equilibrium. Forgot to write the O in H2O and made a fool of myself in front of the entire class while writing on the whiteboard, but otherwise it’s very straightforward.
10:56 – On to computer lab. There’s a single chair less than the number of people. Made Excel spreadsheet of data + calculations from last week’s experiment about measuring the rate of reaction of I+ with H2O.
11:25 – On to the actual lab! Making aspirin, of all things, which is cool. A bit of salicylic acid, a splash of sodium anhydride, and a few drops of sulfuric acid are mixed together, then heated in a water bath and cooled in an ice bath. Filter it out and the white crunchy stuff is aspirin, ready to smoosh headaches, Waltuh.
12:30 – Listening to Clay & Buck while waiting for retrieval.