Today marks three weeks in China. We celebrated with pizza from Papa John’s for lunch. It was very good. Then Dan, one of the American students, went to the nearby Subway and bought us all cookies for dessert.
Afterwards Lauren and Jason and Gonzy and I all went to thermo. Today we finished with Chapter 3 and started Chapter 4, which is all about the equipartition theorem (don’t ask), specific heats (i.e. how much energy does it take to boil a pot of hot water for coffee), the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (which we haven’t gotten to yet), and free energy paths (which is still to come as well).
In ASI today, we again studied time before talking about money and buying things. Today, everyone was extremely distracted, due to the fact that this was the last class in a long week, and also to the fact that it was 30 minutes (ling dian ban fen) longer than normal. Needless to say, there were several off-track “episodes” (to use a musical term) that occurred.
Due to the length of our class, all of the shuttle times had been pushed back half an hour as well. So, we all returned to the apartments, and only three of us, Cierra, Lauren, and I ended up going to Link City. UDCI has purchased a Sam’s Club membership for us, and today we got to try it out. I just looked around and didn’t buy anything, but I did push the cart for Cierra and Lauren, who both bought some things. This Sam’s Club is on two floors, with the first floor being food and the second floor being most of the drinks along with everything else. You enter on the second floor, accessed from the third floor of the mall. Rather confusingly, the Sam’s Club’s first floor exit is on the mall’s first floor, while the second floor is between the mall’s second and third floors, and is accessed from the third. This does not create problems, however, because Sam’s Club occupies a whole corner of the mall building. We wandered around the second floor, bought a few drinks (sparkling grape juice and regular Welch’s juice) before heading to the first floor. To get from one floor to the other, you use an inclined moving walkway. The walkway and cart interlock so that the cart does not go rolling down. On the first floor we bought several items of food, before checking out and leaving. We got on the bus early, and actually arrived back at the apartments at the time we would normally have left Link City. Afterward we all did our own thing for dinner. Several people headed out to a bar late at night, and apparently stayed there for a while, only returning in the early morning hours. Not being a part of that group, I went to sleep around midnight or 1AM, so as to be up and ready to get on the 09:00 bus.
Afterwards Lauren and Jason and Gonzy and I all went to thermo. Today we finished with Chapter 3 and started Chapter 4, which is all about the equipartition theorem (don’t ask), specific heats (i.e. how much energy does it take to boil a pot of hot water for coffee), the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution (which we haven’t gotten to yet), and free energy paths (which is still to come as well).
In ASI today, we again studied time before talking about money and buying things. Today, everyone was extremely distracted, due to the fact that this was the last class in a long week, and also to the fact that it was 30 minutes (ling dian ban fen) longer than normal. Needless to say, there were several off-track “episodes” (to use a musical term) that occurred.
Due to the length of our class, all of the shuttle times had been pushed back half an hour as well. So, we all returned to the apartments, and only three of us, Cierra, Lauren, and I ended up going to Link City. UDCI has purchased a Sam’s Club membership for us, and today we got to try it out. I just looked around and didn’t buy anything, but I did push the cart for Cierra and Lauren, who both bought some things. This Sam’s Club is on two floors, with the first floor being food and the second floor being most of the drinks along with everything else. You enter on the second floor, accessed from the third floor of the mall. Rather confusingly, the Sam’s Club’s first floor exit is on the mall’s first floor, while the second floor is between the mall’s second and third floors, and is accessed from the third. This does not create problems, however, because Sam’s Club occupies a whole corner of the mall building. We wandered around the second floor, bought a few drinks (sparkling grape juice and regular Welch’s juice) before heading to the first floor. To get from one floor to the other, you use an inclined moving walkway. The walkway and cart interlock so that the cart does not go rolling down. On the first floor we bought several items of food, before checking out and leaving. We got on the bus early, and actually arrived back at the apartments at the time we would normally have left Link City. Afterward we all did our own thing for dinner. Several people headed out to a bar late at night, and apparently stayed there for a while, only returning in the early morning hours. Not being a part of that group, I went to sleep around midnight or 1AM, so as to be up and ready to get on the 09:00 bus.