E3 - Week Two
Week Two.
It was hard to wake up for Monday. I guess last Monday I was rather excited and stuff so I woke up easily. Well, here’s the thing. Lisa and I went to Baton Rouge, LA after the first week of work. We went to go see Texas A&M play LSU in baseball for the NCAA Super Regional Tournament. Well, needless to say, we lost but it was a lot of fun and I got home real late and had to stay in Houston for the night because of how tired I was. So I was a little late to work on Monday and Lynn got a whole tour of the Civil Engineering labs and everything and she liked it a lot.
On Tuesday, we got to sit in on one of the civil engineering soils labs and it was kind of interesting. Since it was like class to me I sort of fell asleep. But we got to see kids play with soil. Our Tuesday talk wasn’t cancelled so we got an interesting talk on Genetics and stuff. Wednesday was our culture/learning discussion again and this time we distracted Leslie (the lady who is in charge, I guess) enough to where we didn’t get to the class discussion part. Well that’s a plus because our discussion this week was over facts/generalizations/concepts/theories and that sort of mess – not a fun topic at all. Again our talk on Wednesday afternoon was cancelled (we were supposed to go see a talk on TI and stuff, it seemed interesting and cool, oh well).
Thursday: first field trip out of town. We went to Atofina chemical company and it was really neat and interesting. They are the world’s largest producer of polypropylene – plastic. We got to go on an elite tour of their facilities (which is hardly open to anyone) and learn a lot about what they do and how high school kids could get a job there. I think this tour really helped me to learn a lot more about those chemical plants that I see everywhere and have a greater understanding of them. We got home a little later than expected but it was still a good day. Friday was just more “educational discovery” so it was a pretty laid back day.
It was hard to wake up for Monday. I guess last Monday I was rather excited and stuff so I woke up easily. Well, here’s the thing. Lisa and I went to Baton Rouge, LA after the first week of work. We went to go see Texas A&M play LSU in baseball for the NCAA Super Regional Tournament. Well, needless to say, we lost but it was a lot of fun and I got home real late and had to stay in Houston for the night because of how tired I was. So I was a little late to work on Monday and Lynn got a whole tour of the Civil Engineering labs and everything and she liked it a lot.
On Tuesday, we got to sit in on one of the civil engineering soils labs and it was kind of interesting. Since it was like class to me I sort of fell asleep. But we got to see kids play with soil. Our Tuesday talk wasn’t cancelled so we got an interesting talk on Genetics and stuff. Wednesday was our culture/learning discussion again and this time we distracted Leslie (the lady who is in charge, I guess) enough to where we didn’t get to the class discussion part. Well that’s a plus because our discussion this week was over facts/generalizations/concepts/theories and that sort of mess – not a fun topic at all. Again our talk on Wednesday afternoon was cancelled (we were supposed to go see a talk on TI and stuff, it seemed interesting and cool, oh well).
Thursday: first field trip out of town. We went to Atofina chemical company and it was really neat and interesting. They are the world’s largest producer of polypropylene – plastic. We got to go on an elite tour of their facilities (which is hardly open to anyone) and learn a lot about what they do and how high school kids could get a job there. I think this tour really helped me to learn a lot more about those chemical plants that I see everywhere and have a greater understanding of them. We got home a little later than expected but it was still a good day. Friday was just more “educational discovery” so it was a pretty laid back day.
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