I haven't been posting as much the past couple weeks because I have had a ton of homework. My math teacher assigned a huge volume of problems for the past two assignments, which aren't really difficult, but are complex and therefore time-consuming. Also, in chemistry we've suddenly gotten into stuff I don't know from high school - first thermodynamics, and now a bottom-up, historicized explanation of the structure of the atom. There was also another women's studies paper, which I think I posted about briefly.
On the other hand, lab has been really fun these past two weeks. We were doing "identification of common chemicals" which will be the basis of our final practical exam. This means we got a basket of reagents and glassware each and 40 chemicals were available around the room. The task: make enough observations to distinguish all the chemicals from each other when they are unlabeled. The homework: make a flow chart to use during the exam. Only 20 chemicals will be chosen for the exam, and I hope lithium chloride is one of them because it has a beautiful, brilliant magenta color in a flame.
I've also been re-acclimating to a certain extent after coming back from Portland. I'm pretty much good now, but last week it was hard to focus on school because I was thinking about Portland and the people there a lot. I called my best friend (who really needs a blog name but I still can't think of a good one) and it felt good to talk to her. I think we can relate to each other a lot lately.
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