Yesterday’s class were different. Two out of three classes were just out of the mold. Let me discuss each.

Honors Seminar Class

We finally got our to grow our bacteria! A special thanks goes to Professor Chakraborty, Dr. John Hunter, and Sam McClure from biology for being patient and helpful with us. It took us three separate tries but we got some good data from the last one (stay tuned). Here are a bunch of pictures from the event. There are also some pictures in here from the failed 4-3 attempted. I really like our “solution” (hehe) for measuring the absorption – very physics – more on that later too.

Class Outside Today for 119

In my general education physics class, I got students working in groups and discussing about CO₂, global warming, and over population. It was a good class. I had a couple of packets from my honors class that I re-purposed. They were designed to get students to think about deeply about global warming and human population. Turns out that most of the class felt that the solution was a future based off the movies The Purge. HeHe! That’s funny, but it does get to the ethical issues of over population. What can you do that is ethical? For the record, I don’t know the answer and it bothers me.

Seriously the students were STRONGLY against sitting in the grass. That surprised me. Who doesn’t like sitting in the grass? There were a few folks that were dressed nicely so that kind of makes sense. Still it was a nice day? I should have ate a worm, that would have been epic.

Here are pictures of every one sitting on benches and tables.

Don’t worry, my E&M physics class was great. We worked on Magnetic fields.

And I love our beautiful campus!