Feb
25
What A Week!
Posted in Academics, Campus Life, Events, General, Photos
Hey Hawkeyes!
In case you haven’t noticed from my blog posts (or lack thereof) it’s starting to get busy around here. Something about midterms? As you know I had my first chem exam 2 weeks ago and I did pretty well on that. I had a psychology test this past week and just recently(today) got my grade from that, which was also pretty good (yay! :)). This coming week I’ll have my first calculus test (eek!). I never really feel ready for a test, it always seems like there’s something I should know more about. I’ve been staying caught up in homework, but I’ve determined that in order to actually be ready for upcoming tests, I need to be ahead.
Quick update on my week (+ pictures :))
Last Friday I went to an indoor track meet to watch one of my friends from another University. It was amazing to see her running against all the college athletes.
One of our athletes getting ready to run. I think he won his race.
Hurdles
I went home for the weekend, which was awesome. I learned the Ultimate College Student’s Lesson: I can go for over a month without doing laundry. Since I live so close to home it seems silly to do laundry here, but with different volunteer things going on it’s hard to go home often enough to do laundry on a regular basis. I was also able to visit one of my friends who just got this adorable puppy!
Isn’t he adorable?!
On Tuesdays I have a Chemical Engineering Seminar for an hour in the afternoon. This past Tuesday found us talking about mixtures and how the amounts of components affect the product. Like in the making of ice cream, more air means not as good. So to demonstrate this….we made ice cream!!!!
Making the shake ice cream 🙂 Hands were a little cold afterwards.
Making liquid nitrogen ice cream
And what would a week be without
A study party!
I’m taking a photography class (that I’m absolutely loving other than the fact that it’s 5:30-9pm), and had an assignment to represent University of Iowa.
My friends decided to help out and make sure I knew where the Old Capitol was 🙂
I also got this picture, which I thought was cool
On Friday night I volunteered with the Society of Women Engineers at the Children’s Museum at Coral Ridge Mall for their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Night. It was a ton of fun. We basically played with kids all night, which was awesome!
Playing around in the Hospital room before the kids started arriving.
Saturday was the FIRST Tech Challenge State Championships. In high school I participated in the robotics club and have fond memories of coming to the State Championships here at Iowa. So this year, I decided to volunteer.
Ring it up! The challenge for this year.
It was a great experience and it was awesome to see all the robots and meet so many new people, as well as see my high school team and coaches. I’m excited for next year so I can be more involved and maybe even volunteer at some of the qualifying competitions.
I’ll try to keep you guys updated more often, so watch for another post in the next couple of days! 🙂
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