The Commonly Confused Words Test

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( The Commonly Confused Words Test )

(tweekie, this made me think of you)

Field Trip - Nuvera

So yesterday the class I TA for went on a field trip. We went to go visit Nuvera, a fuel cell company out by Alewife. Actually the visit was a lot of fun, and the seem to use a lot of the material which I am doing now which is exciting. Say hey for actually using what you learned in school. A lot of it went over the heads of the students in the class though. They are only freshman and they have no idea what a Plug Flow Reactor is for example. Unless it was right out of our class material they wouldn't have seen a lot of this stuff. On the other hand I think that it was really good for them to see an environment in which chemical engineers really work and to see the actually testing setups etc. In the end I am not sure if it was a better experience for them or me, but I am still very glad that I had the opportunity to go.

*edit* Oh, I saw this guy at the company who could have been Cwellan's brother (with darker hair, dreds and full beard).

Wisdom from Gaussian

Gaussian is a molecular modeling program I installed at work today. In the output code there tends to be a quote or smart ass remark. Today for benzene, one of the first ones I ran I found the following quote:

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions,
by going off the main road, by trying the untried.
-- Frank Tyger