I
was supposed to go running this morning but I woke up too cold and too tired.
On the bright side my roommate and I agreed we were both too cold and tired and
didn't run. We met in front of the dorms by 7:30 am and walked to the cafeteria
to eat breakfast. Breakfast was
great, the pancakes were delicious and I had taken a liking to the chocolate
milk they have. It went by fairly quickly since the line to get in was absurdly
long. I was the second to last person to meet up with the physics class sadly. We
took a detour in the morning to get to class that was longer than it had to be
but it was an honest mistake so everything was good. We made it to the
engineering building where we are having the physics class. When we came in we
were a bit late so the professor and assistants and supporting teachers
introduced themselves to us.
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| Optics |
It
was a quick introduction, Bill Berner was our professor and I instantly got
excited to be in physics since I had read so many good things about him in the
physics blogs. Then the rest of the staff introduced themselves, Marry, Craig
Harper, peter and James. We got down to business and marry showed us the ropes
and the key to a successful 3 week camp with no grades! Then we went upstairs
to the lab after an amazing lecture by Marry on dynamics. The lab was great and
I got to meet and work with my group, they were all awesome people and I had a
great time with the experiments and filling out the worksheets. Before I knew
it we finished the worksheets and headed downstairs where Bill introduced us to
optics before we left to lunch with the RCs.
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| Lunch Destination! |
We
had lunch in the “MARKET” it was a very nice place and they had a wide variety
of good foods, only problem I had was getting a hold of it. The place was
saturated but all was not bad, I met a lot of people and the sushi I barely
finished on time was delicious! We headed back and dived right back into optics
with Bill! He showed us many things, from a “real” lightbulb created from the
reflection of light from a curved mirror to a narcissist’s best friend, a box
corner reflector. We then went up to a different lab to run experiments to
prove a theorem he had taught us in the lecture. I got some time with Bill and
Marry and they told me great stories. Bill told me about how he lost his index
fingertip, he was fixing his car when he was a teenager and he turned on the
engine and his finger got caught on the fan belt of the car. Following this Marry
told me about how he got his daughter to not move while getting her nails clipped,
she told her that what had happened to Bill’s finger was that he moved too much
while his mom was clipping his nails. Luckily my group had great communication
skills and teamwork we all got to help out and were engaged on the experiment.
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| Invisibility, Optics |
Before
we left I got another great story, this time from Peter Harnish. He told me
about how he had gotten a big scar on his forehead; he was working at a Boy
Scout camp in Ohio while he was collecting firewood a tree fell on his
forehead. He wore a hat for the rest of the week because he didn’t want anyone
knowing he busted his head collecting firewood midway through the week we left
early to dinner. We left without my roommate because social justice ran long. Me
and josh went together, we both got seconds and Stephen joined us soon after,
we sat down and had a nice dinner together, we got ice cream before we left and
got back to our dorms a few minutes before orientation.
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| Eli's Presentation |
We
went to orientation and it was great, Eli talked to all of us and gave us wise
words to live by, “swipe your card, it opens go in, someone tells you you can’t
be there, go out”. Then we went over all the rules and regulations with Rob and
we went to see our home area where we would be spending our three weeks, my RC
did a great job and we covered everything we needed to cover. I ended up with a
good feeling of the campus and our home area. We came in and I was exhausted,
the good news was that Stephen and I now knew how to use the AC and wouldn’t
spend another night freezing.
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| City Skyline |
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