{"id":581,"date":"2014-10-03T08:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/?p=581"},"modified":"2014-10-03T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T13:40:57","slug":"life-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/2014\/10\/life-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hawkeyes!<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone is having a great school year so far. My level of busy-ness is what my math professor would call a beautiful exponential function. I thought that after the first week of school my schedule would balance out and I would fall into a routine. Yes, I know, I&#8217;m a junior now and I should know better. My activities are starting to get more active with volunteering, professional meetings, and workshops. On top of that, as the main reason that I&#8217;m here, my classes are really picking up as well. Going into this year, I was a bit nervous about all my classes and was considering dropping one of my classes. But then I went to the first day and decided I really liked the class and wouldn&#8217;t drop it. I&#8217;m still not sure if that was the right decision or not, but I still really like the class. The past couple of weeks have been pretty busy because of my class and homework schedule. So in summary of my last couple weeks:<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-581 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/2014\/10\/life-update\/dscn1287\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1287-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-583\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-583'>\n\t\t\t\tFootball games with girls on my floor \ud83d\ude42\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/2014\/10\/life-update\/dscn1427\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1427-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-582\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-582'>\n\t\t\t\tOnIowa! Leader Awards Ceremony at Kinnick\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>It was so good to see Code Red again! We&#8217;re planning a Code Red dinner soon and I can&#8217;t wait to see them!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_585\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1518.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1518-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lab Equipment\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lab Equipment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesdays and Thursdays I have a 3-hour lab where we rotate through different experiments and then write a lab report about the experiment. The contraption above is from the experiment entitled &#8220;Jacketed Kettle&#8221;. The idea of this particular experiment was to study the rate of heat transfer in heating and cooling water with mixing versus just letting it sit. In case you&#8217;re wondering, if you&#8217;re trying to cool something quickly, you really need to mix it. To collect enough data to write a report about, one of my lab partners and I hung out in the lab for 4 hours one day just waiting for the water to cool from 90\u02daC to 30\u02daC. It was a long day, but we collected all the data we needed. At least we hope we did; we&#8217;re writing the lab report in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_584\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sarah\/files\/2014\/10\/DSCN1445-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Homework and report writing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Homework and report writing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After finishing the experiment, we write the lab report about it. The engineering building has a great space for working on group stuff, which also comes in handy when there&#8217;s a large group of us working on the same homework assignment. Luckily, the building has lots of table space. I spend a lot of time in this building so I&#8217;m getting to know a lot of the people who also do homework there. The Chemical Engineering department at University of Iowa is very close and I know the majority of my class as well as a quite a few people in the classes above and below me. I think it makes homework a little more enjoyable to work on it with a group of people, it adds a little more of a social aspect to it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to update my blog more regularly now that I&#8217;m used to the craziness of writing lab reports and doing homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Hawkeyes! I hope everyone is having a great school year so far. My level of busy-ness is what my math professor would call a beautiful exponential function. I thought that after the first week of school my schedule would balance out and I would fall into a routine. 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