For our labs this week, the class is divided into different lab groups, so groups rotate between the three labs to experiment with all of them in small groups. On our first day, yesterday, my group started analyzing air pollution right on campus. Little did I know, the is an air filterer on the roof …
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“Hey guys test this week, pressure is on…”
Things to do while attempting to make NO and NO2 measurements during chemistry lab: 1) Take measurements from the magic so called NOx box 2) Make up air puns A selection: “Whoever says this class is easy is full of hot air” – Nico “When this class is done I’ll be on cloud 9” – Katie “Don’t …
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The Wild World of Atmospheric Physics
Fifth block always feels like a bit of a whirlwind, as we all frantically try to get out of vacation mode and back into our normal role as students. But never have I experienced a fifth block quite this intense. I am in what will almost certainly be the hardest class of my CC career …
7:30 AM -TBD
If you were under the impression that being on the block plan means that you have class from 9AM-12PM and then you are free and wild, please be aware that, for science majors, this is rarely true. The block plan means that there is no procrastinating or class three times a week, and then lab …
Welcome to EV431: The Class Where We Launch A Weather Balloon
Today was day two of EV431 Air: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The classroom for me is a familiar one for me, and I am sure for most of the other students taking this course, since most of us are Environmental Science majors and have wandered the same rooms in Tutt Science for a few years now. This …
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The End.
My block break adventures on the Colorado River! It’s hard to believe that my FYE is over! After 7 weeks of the same classroom, classmates and professor, I am both nervous and excited for a change! Upon returning from New Mexico, we continued to look critically at the history of that fascinating state further armed …
New Mexico, Baby!
The whole class at the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Hello All, So I’m here sitting in at Starbucks in Fort Collins, CO, still in slight disbelief that the first week of the block is already over. On Monday, after block break, we met as a class to get back our research papers and midterms, talk about …
Block Break!
Hey y’all! – Just got back from a fantastic block break in the Maroon Bells in Aspen, CO! My backpacking buds and I by Crater Lake in Aspen, Colorado. During the fourth and final week [well, really more half of a week] of the block we finished talking about the mining industry in Colorado. We had a …
A Walk Downtown and a Whole Lot of Texas.
The Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum This last week and a half has been so jammed packed, I don’t even know where to begin! So like Santiago recommended we do for our papers, I will write an outline than elaborate on each event that took place. I. Ranching in Texas: We read several fascinating excerpts about …
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A Journey to the Library
Today in class we took a field trip. However, this journey was not miles away but rather just to the next building over: the Tutt Library. After a quick lecture about the Spanish colonization northward out of Mexico to the American Southwest, where Santiago talked to us about Missions, [churches used mainly to convert Natives to Christianity] in the New World …
