Chelsea and Me
Wednesday, January 30
Tuesday, January 29
Letter Home
Cleaned out a desk drawer last night. I have two glues and four tapes. And a kabillion staples.
Astrocamp Application
Heyyyy Mom, it wants to know my work experience. Can you email me the Fitzpatrick's address, and who was my supervisor at Danner? Do I just put Uncle Joe and his work phone?
Oi, Did you set up a notification so that each time I post, you get an email? Or RSS feed me. Speaking of feeding me . . .
Ode to my missing Gold Card
Every day I check the mail
but my box is empty, no avail.
My money, my identification, my luncheon,
are put on hold 'til the card be punched in.
I have to withdraw from the cash machine
to eat my meals, and snacks in between.
Good thing I'm too busy for appetite,
so I don't have to dine for $8 each night.
The library police think I'm totally sketch,
and I'm running out of things about which to kvetch.
Lastly, I have to sneak into the gym to use the pool.
Missing one's Gold Card isn't cool.
Astrocamp Application
Heyyyy Mom, it wants to know my work experience. Can you email me the Fitzpatrick's address, and who was my supervisor at Danner? Do I just put Uncle Joe and his work phone?
Oi, Did you set up a notification so that each time I post, you get an email? Or RSS feed me. Speaking of feeding me . . .
Ode to my missing Gold Card
Every day I check the mail
but my box is empty, no avail.
My money, my identification, my luncheon,
are put on hold 'til the card be punched in.
I have to withdraw from the cash machine
to eat my meals, and snacks in between.
Good thing I'm too busy for appetite,
so I don't have to dine for $8 each night.
The library police think I'm totally sketch,
and I'm running out of things about which to kvetch.
Lastly, I have to sneak into the gym to use the pool.
Missing one's Gold Card isn't cool.
Saturday, January 26
Friday, January 25
Block Five
Chemistry 107
My chemistry education in high school had large, gushing, bullet hole gaps. Here's what I've learned in four days at college (well, what I've taught myself, since the professor assumes that we know it already and just need refreshing). I could take Jesuit's 1st-semester finals now.
Monday: Ch. 2
- The electron's charge-to-mass ratio: e/m = 1.758820 x 108 c/g (coulumbs/gram)
- Mass ratios & Law of Multiple Proportions
- Atomic mass and natural abundance of isotopes
- Atomic weight. 1 atomic mass unit = 1.660539 x 10-24 g
[Naturally occurring carbon, for example, is a mixture of two isotopes, 12C (98.89%) and 13C (1.11 %). Individual carbon atoms therefore have a mass of either 12.000 or 13.03354 amu. But the average mass of the different isotopes of carbon is 12.011 amu.]
- The difference between covalent and ionic bonds
- homogeneous vs. heterogeneous
- Table sugar is named β-D-fructofuranosyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (We didn't need to know that)
- Metals form cations, nonmetals form anions.
- The metals that can form more than one kind of cations
- How to name binary molecular compounds, compounds with polyatomic ions, oxoacids and their oxoions
Tuesday: Statistics
General Introduction to Statistical Analysis of Data, new to most of us, thankfully.
- frequency analysis
- mean, median, mode
- variance
- standard deviation and normal distribution
- percent relative standard deviation a.k.a. confidence interval (chemistry always uses 95%)
- t-test for uncertainty/condfidence level
- formula for estimating how many data points are needed to obtain lower uncertainty
- Null hypothesis theory, determining if data differences are statistically significant or due to randomness
Wednesday: Ch.3
- Balancing Chemical Equations
- stoichiometry
- yields of chemical reactions
- reactions with limiting amounts of reactants
- molarity. M = solute (mol) / solution (L), stoichiometry with solutions, titration
- percent composition of each element in a compound
- molecular formula, molecular mass; formula unit, formula mass; mole, molar mass; empirical formula, empirical formula mass; mass ratio for molecules
Thursday: Ch.4, Reactions in Aqueous Solution
- precipitation reactions, oxidation-reduction reactions
- electrolytes in aqueous solution
- aqueous reactions and net ionic equations
- solubility rules
- identifying, balancing redox using oxidation-number method or the half-reaction method
- redox titration
My chemistry education in high school had large, gushing, bullet hole gaps. Here's what I've learned in four days at college (well, what I've taught myself, since the professor assumes that we know it already and just need refreshing). I could take Jesuit's 1st-semester finals now.
Monday: Ch. 2
- The electron's charge-to-mass ratio: e/m = 1.758820 x 108 c/g (coulumbs/gram)
- Mass ratios & Law of Multiple Proportions
- Atomic mass and natural abundance of isotopes
- Atomic weight. 1 atomic mass unit = 1.660539 x 10-24 g
[Naturally occurring carbon, for example, is a mixture of two isotopes, 12C (98.89%) and 13C (1.11 %). Individual carbon atoms therefore have a mass of either 12.000 or 13.03354 amu. But the average mass of the different isotopes of carbon is 12.011 amu.]
- The difference between covalent and ionic bonds
- homogeneous vs. heterogeneous
- Table sugar is named β-D-fructofuranosyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (We didn't need to know that)
- Metals form cations, nonmetals form anions.
- The metals that can form more than one kind of cations
- How to name binary molecular compounds, compounds with polyatomic ions, oxoacids and their oxoions
Tuesday: Statistics
General Introduction to Statistical Analysis of Data, new to most of us, thankfully.
- frequency analysis
- mean, median, mode
- variance
- standard deviation and normal distribution
- percent relative standard deviation a.k.a. confidence interval (chemistry always uses 95%)
- t-test for uncertainty/condfidence level
- formula for estimating how many data points are needed to obtain lower uncertainty
- Null hypothesis theory, determining if data differences are statistically significant or due to randomness
Wednesday: Ch.3
- Balancing Chemical Equations
- stoichiometry
- yields of chemical reactions
- reactions with limiting amounts of reactants
- molarity. M = solute (mol) / solution (L), stoichiometry with solutions, titration
- percent composition of each element in a compound
- molecular formula, molecular mass; formula unit, formula mass; mole, molar mass; empirical formula, empirical formula mass; mass ratio for molecules
Thursday: Ch.4, Reactions in Aqueous Solution
- precipitation reactions, oxidation-reduction reactions
- electrolytes in aqueous solution
- aqueous reactions and net ionic equations
- solubility rules
- identifying, balancing redox using oxidation-number method or the half-reaction method
- redox titration
Wednesday, January 23
Advanced League, Suckers!
Last night. Sheldo told me earlier there was a hockey game at 8:45. Hoorah, so I really am going to join the team in Advanced League, I thought.
Then an hour before the game, I saw Sheldo (team captain) in the library and he was like, "About that . . . . you should come today and suit up because we won't have a lot of subs, but it might be just this game. This is advanced league, you know, and you haven't been playing for so long. We'll put you in if we're down by 20, right?"
And I thought, "Yeah, right. You just wait and see."
We only had one sub, and Sheldo got hurt and had to sit out a lot, and I played the entire game really well. We lost 3-5, but it was a close match, and when we were getting ready to leave Sheldo came up and said, "You played like a champ tonight. There aren't so many people on the roster as I thought. Actually, I think we're going to need you every time."
Booya!
Then an hour before the game, I saw Sheldo (team captain) in the library and he was like, "About that . . . . you should come today and suit up because we won't have a lot of subs, but it might be just this game. This is advanced league, you know, and you haven't been playing for so long. We'll put you in if we're down by 20, right?"
And I thought, "Yeah, right. You just wait and see."
We only had one sub, and Sheldo got hurt and had to sit out a lot, and I played the entire game really well. We lost 3-5, but it was a close match, and when we were getting ready to leave Sheldo came up and said, "You played like a champ tonight. There aren't so many people on the roster as I thought. Actually, I think we're going to need you every time."
Booya!
Tuesday, January 22
Oh yes, wait a minute Mister Postman
Wait, wait, wait a minute Mister Postman
Please Mister Postman, look and see
(Oh yeah) If there's a letter in your mailbag for me
(To parents) I forgot to pack this stuff. . . or they didn't fit:
Gold Card
all the clothes I left in the laundry basket.
a couple of belts
Prefontaine poster
bike helmet
colorful scarf
Jesuit lanyard, for keys
turntable?
albums: Loverboy, Marlene Dietrich, The Kinks, Ravi Shankar, The Pretenders, Siouxsie and the Banshees (weird underwater album cover)
Columbia 'biner mug
grey waterbottle from Dad
Please Mister Postman, look and see
(Oh yeah) If there's a letter in your mailbag for me
(To parents) I forgot to pack this stuff. . . or they didn't fit:
Gold Card
all the clothes I left in the laundry basket.
a couple of belts
Prefontaine poster
bike helmet
colorful scarf
Jesuit lanyard, for keys
turntable?
albums: Loverboy, Marlene Dietrich, The Kinks, Ravi Shankar, The Pretenders, Siouxsie and the Banshees (weird underwater album cover)
Columbia 'biner mug
grey waterbottle from Dad
Sunday, January 6
Maxims
The early bird gets the worm.
So sleep in 'til noon. You won't hate yourself in the morning.
Never hit a man with glasses - use your fist.
It's sad that whole people can be torn apart by simple things, like wild dogs.
If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
When you're run down, the best thing to take is the license plate number.
So sleep in 'til noon. You won't hate yourself in the morning.
Never hit a man with glasses - use your fist.
It's sad that whole people can be torn apart by simple things, like wild dogs.
If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
When you're run down, the best thing to take is the license plate number.
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