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Day 252: Fountain
This fountain is near my building. I had to walk by it today on the way to a professor’s office hours.
Day 249: Sad
Another failure in the lab this week. This time it was a computer running software that we no longer have access to. Great.
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Day 244: Office hours view
This is my view during office hours on Thursday. I get to hold them in one of the new classrooms in the Yeh Center, which just opened a month or two ago.
Day 237: Birds!
There were a ton of birds on one of the fields I pass on the bus on the way to school:
Day 187: New tank
I got a new gas tank today: R134A!
Posted in Photos, 365, Campus, Technology, July
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Day 165: Experimental notes
Some data points I’ve taken while experimenting (please disregard my crappy hand writing):
Day 160: Funny sculptures
These sculptures are on the South side of campus near the fancy bio buildings:
Day 158: Fountain
This fountain is right near my building (which is just to the left out of the frame of this photo):
Day 151: Sod
Sod that will be installed around the new addition to my building was delivered today:
Day 131: Dressed up Alma Mater
Every year around graduation the most famous statue on campus, the Alma Mater, gets to wear graduation regalia: PS Today I passed my PhD Preliminary Defense (where I presented my experimental plan to my doctoral committee and they asked me … Continue reading
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Day 110: Vessel
Another work thing… I’m trying to find a gasket or flange to work with one of our adsorption vessels to keep it from leaking under vacuum… so I had to measure the top:
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Day 109: GC
This week is very busy work-wise, so you will get lots of work photos. Today I spent some time trying to figure out how to get this old (c. 1990) gas chromatograph running again. Here’s one view of it:
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Day 106: Moon
We went out to dinner in campustown tonight. The moon was lovely:
Day 82: Fire
There was a huge fire in Campus-town today. I could see the smoke from my office window: Later we went to dinner in Campus-town and took a look at the damage:
Day 66: Green roof
My building at school is getting a huge addition put on and the addition has a green roof! Unfortunately it will only be for birds to look at because there is only one exit from the roof and fire code … Continue reading
Day 61: Micro and Nanotech
This is the building immediately to the west of my building. It’s the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab:
Day 60: Mmm yogurt
Cocomero is a relatively new restaurant in Campustown that has delicious frozen yogurt (sold by the ounce). Yum!
Day 59: Campus construction
This building has been empty for several years and the university finally got the funding to start renovating it last year. I like the junk chutes that look like elephant trunks:
Day 41: Early morning smoke stack
Another photo from the bus… this one much less blurry. I took this on my morning ride in– it shows the plumes from the campus coal-fired power plant. Oh– also that building on the left is Blue Waters, the soon … Continue reading
Day 40: Blurry sunset
I tried to get a photo of the sunset while I was on the bus home, but my phone does not respond like my SLR, so you get a blurry photo (still pretty):
