We are having a snow day today at work, but I've been awake since 4:45am. I ended up keeping an eye on the webcam I like to look at daily and I made the following video that tracks the webcam from 5am-9am.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Weekly Photo 1.17.11
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| John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge, Cincinnati, OH; Taken Dec. 2009 during an urban hike (see the hikers?) |
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Chicago Construction Challenge!
It's been a busy week between homework for school, homework for work, and preparing to be out of town for the weekend. About Friday midday I'll be heading to Chicago to help my Mom with an event called Construction Challenge. Below is a quote from the website:
After I arrive on Friday evening, I'm sure I'll be helping set up for Saturday morning. Saturday is the big day and we'll be waking up super early and we'll be ready to start getting teams checked in by 7:30am or so. I'm not sure what I'll be doing after registration... My role might include taking photos, working in the score room, or any number of things! I can't wait to see what the challenges are this year - - and what the high schoolers come up with for their solutions!
"To help develop the workforce of the future, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), presenting sponsor Volvo Construction Equipment, and Destination ImagiNation® (DI) are kicking off the 2010-11 Construction Challenge. Construction Challenge provides participants a real-world experience that will inspire them to explore and pursue careers in the construction industry.I've been a part of this for a few years now, always because my Mom has been involved in some big way. At least twice she's been the Chicago Rally Leader and responsible for recruiting teams from across her region to compete. The latest update I've heard is that she's gotten 40+ teams to sign up!
High school teams will compete and solve transportation and water infrastructure Challenges using creativity, teamwork and problem solving. Teams of five (5) to seven (7) participants (plus an adult Team Manager) will compete at 9 Regional Rallies across North America, and the top 24 teams will advance to the Championship Finals at CONEXPO/CON-AGG in Las Vegas in March 2011." --ConstructionChallenge.org (http://constructionchallenge.org/index.php/who-we-are/about)
After I arrive on Friday evening, I'm sure I'll be helping set up for Saturday morning. Saturday is the big day and we'll be waking up super early and we'll be ready to start getting teams checked in by 7:30am or so. I'm not sure what I'll be doing after registration... My role might include taking photos, working in the score room, or any number of things! I can't wait to see what the challenges are this year - - and what the high schoolers come up with for their solutions!
Sunday, January 09, 2011
Friday, January 07, 2011
Back to School in 2011
This week was my first week of college classes since 2007, and I can see it'll take a little getting used to. Not necessarily to the classes themselves, but to the homework and managing my time at home. I'm taking undergraduate level classes again to get the prerequisites necessary for the masters I want to pursue.
My first time around, my classes were all related to language, but now I've got to level up to health science! That means "Hello, physics, biology, and statistics!" I never was too fond of math..
This quarter my first classes are Statistics for Health Science and Astronomy: The Solar System. Yesterday it became apparent that for Stats we make our own homework. We have to find practice problems on the internet or in a book that wasn't ordered for our class (and therefore none of the 10 students has a copy - though we do have a general stats book) and keep them in a notebook that we can keep in a notebook to turn in at the end of the 10-week course for credit. A copy of the book we don't have is in the Learning Center, but you can't even take copies of the pages; you have to use it in the Learning Center. I think I'll look into finding a copy at the library of the campus next to where I work.
Astronomy is set up in a more familiar way. We have 10 weeks of class, only meeting once a week and that means doing a lot of work on our own - but at least it's "read the chapter and answer these questions, then email them to me by Sunday". We have our first assignment due this Sunday and our first quiz is on Tuesday!
As far as the rest of this leveling business goes, the soonest I'll be finished with the undergraduate classes is the summer of 2012. That is, if I am accepted into grad school by that time AND I can take 3 courses packed into a compact 10-week summer course. If it doesn't work out that way, I'd have to take those 3 courses over fall, winter and spring quarters and I wouldn't finish the undergrad classes until 2013. We'll just have to see!
My first time around, my classes were all related to language, but now I've got to level up to health science! That means "Hello, physics, biology, and statistics!" I never was too fond of math..
This quarter my first classes are Statistics for Health Science and Astronomy: The Solar System. Yesterday it became apparent that for Stats we make our own homework. We have to find practice problems on the internet or in a book that wasn't ordered for our class (and therefore none of the 10 students has a copy - though we do have a general stats book) and keep them in a notebook that we can keep in a notebook to turn in at the end of the 10-week course for credit. A copy of the book we don't have is in the Learning Center, but you can't even take copies of the pages; you have to use it in the Learning Center. I think I'll look into finding a copy at the library of the campus next to where I work.
Astronomy is set up in a more familiar way. We have 10 weeks of class, only meeting once a week and that means doing a lot of work on our own - but at least it's "read the chapter and answer these questions, then email them to me by Sunday". We have our first assignment due this Sunday and our first quiz is on Tuesday!
As far as the rest of this leveling business goes, the soonest I'll be finished with the undergraduate classes is the summer of 2012. That is, if I am accepted into grad school by that time AND I can take 3 courses packed into a compact 10-week summer course. If it doesn't work out that way, I'd have to take those 3 courses over fall, winter and spring quarters and I wouldn't finish the undergrad classes until 2013. We'll just have to see!
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