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Not even in high school??? My chemistry teacher in high schools was freaking hilarious. If he caught someone cheating on a test he would just make fun of them (telling them that is the wrong person to be copying from, telling them they even copied the other person's name on their test, or simply moving their chair next to the other person).
He was a black hispanic WWII veteran. One time, a classmate of mine took his parent's car for a joyride and totaled it. When he came back to school (after a couple of days in the hospital) our chem teacher had a fake award for him. When he asked what it was for, our teacher said: "Nobel prize in chemistry. For being the first person to turn metal into ****."
Since we are on the topic of chemistry it looks like. My first ever class at ISU was Chem 163. That very first Monday morning I walked in there, Twister was playing on the projector screen, and I knew I was in the right place.
My high school chemistry teacher was a lot like GTO's. He would say things like, "Miss carvers4math, could you please move your arm, Mr. Curtis is about to strain a muscle trying to copy your paper." He also was the one to discover that someone from a biology lab had put a cow's eye in the water fountain and his reaction was to say
"moo Bessie." Nothing phased him much.
"moo Bessie." Nothing phased him much.
Although it's "neither here nor there", I took only one chem class back in high school. If you did an imitation of the the teacher you had to include "but that's neither here nor there" because he would say it at least once each class when he pullled himself back after going off on some tangent. I am betting I could go back to Manchester, walk into wherever baby boomers hang out and say " but that's neither here nor there" and someone would say "What, you thing you are Mr. Rasmussen or something?"
I on caught about 1 page of the King thread, right around the chemistry jokes. I sent the "Did you know Oxygen and Magnesium were dating" one to my 6th grader. She liked it. I did take one chemistry class in high school, that's it. I married a chemical engineer. He took enough chemistry classes for the both of us.
Just a side conversation. I honestly don't know if we have any cooking classes at ISU. I mean there is Culinary Science but I am pretty sure they are just the science behind it, not the cooking.
We had basic chemistry incorporated into our junior high science classes. Elements and their basic properties, physical/chemical reactions, and balancing chemical equations. But yeah, only took the one chemistry course sophomore year in high school.
Land Grant schools are not into yummy food. They are here to provide the science to bring us tomatoes, strawberrys and chicken that all taste like cardboard.
There are a couple 400 level Hotel, Restaurant, Institution management classes that deal with cooking. They provide food for the Tearoom on campus that serves meals. But not just a general cooking class anyone could take.
Just looked at my Facebook feed and there was a nice picture of a blooming redbud tree. Than I noticed that it is MY redbud. Neighbor posted it this morning.
CG will need to plant one of these at her new digs. All midwest and eastern ISU alumni homeowners MUST have a redbud tree.
CG will need to plant one of these at her new digs. All midwest and eastern ISU alumni homeowners MUST have a redbud tree.
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Just looked at my Facebook feed and there was a nice picture of a blooming redbud tree. Than I noticed that it is MY redbud. Neighbor posted it this morning.
CG will need to plant one of these at her new digs. All midwest and eastern ISU alumni homeowners MUST have a redbud tree.
I saw one of these on my way to the house yesterday and wondered what it was, what a coininky-dink!. What does it look like during summer and fall? Why is it something alumni must have? Or is this that tree that had by the Campanile?
Redbuds are all over the ISU campus. I consider them thee ISU Tree. They. Are. Awesome.
If you plant one in Wisconsin or Minnesota it needs to be "northern strain" as the native eastern redbud isn't hardy north of Iowa. The selected varieties for MN are hardy here.
Fall color last year:
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Redbuds are all over the ISU campus. I consider them thee ISU Tree. They. Are. Awesome.
If you plant one in Wisconsin or Minnesota it needs to be "northern strain" as the native eastern redbud isn't hardy north of Iowa. The selected varieties for MN are hardy here.
Fall color last year:
I already want to do some red maples (and purple! and orange!) so this is acceptable. Will make for nice ISU fall colors!
I love foliage that does double-duty of spring and fall colors.
Just came back from a walk.
Not a long walk. In fact, shorter than I meant it to be since there was street construction things going on where there are no sidewalks on a semi-busy road. Started out WAY too fast, and got shin splints for it.
But I walked. Small victory for me to get my butt out the door and do it.
Not a long walk. In fact, shorter than I meant it to be since there was street construction things going on where there are no sidewalks on a semi-busy road. Started out WAY too fast, and got shin splints for it.
But I walked. Small victory for me to get my butt out the door and do it.
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