E3 - Week Three, Tuesday

Week Three. Tuesday

Parking has been a pain from the beginning and today was the worst. I’m sick on dealing with the PTTS (or TS) people. They can’t make anything easy for anyone. So therefore I was late again (just by about 10 minutes) and so was Bret (because I took him to school today). We had a meeting today at noon with Giovanna and all of her grad students and stuff. One of them, Debora, presented her Masters Thesis presentation on soils and stuff off of the Gulf Coast. It was really interesting and still kind of over my head. She’s the one who uses VRML which I guess I’m surprised that I haven’t heard of much until now. Bret tells me that it was developed around 1997 and hasn’t really been used since.

We then went and observed the soils lab at 2. Lorrie wasn’t teaching this time, it was Sean. I hope that’s how you spell their names… We saw Lorrie teach last Tuesday on Atterberg Limits. Today Sean taught on Hydraulic Conductivity. Since he’s Asian (I think Chinese) it was really hard to understand his talking. But what was funny was that it brought back memories of GEOL 410 Hydrogeology with Dr. Zhan (who is also Chinese and hard to understand at times), especially with Darcy’s Law. He talked for a long time and then finally got to the lab part when we had to go upstairs to the computer lab.

Our “educational discussion” was rather pointless as usual so I don’t really know what got done (pretty much nothing). We had an interesting talk on Food Safety for our Tuesday talk. The lady was the lady who is Marlo and Veronica’s professor. All food is irradiated apparently. But it won’t kill you. Flying in an airplane is much worse for you (for irradiation purposes).