Monday, August 08, 2005

ions and tigers and bonds, oh my!



This is the building in which I'll be spending the next two years. Although classes don't officially start until the beginning of September, tonight started a week long volunteer Chemistry refresher course designed to help us get prepared for Anatomy and Physiology. (By the way, the A & P textbook is 1,300 pages long. Yikes.) Isotopes, atomic numbers, ions, valence shells....wow...It's been nearly 20 years since I've studied this stuff. It felt great to be back in a classroom, and I actully really enjoyed it.

As it was a voluntary session, there were only about 20 students there. Most of the folks looked like they were in their late 20s or early 30s, so I don't feel terribly old. About 40% were male. There are actually a few in their 50s and one that looks like she could be mid 60s. It was a nice cross section of people.

The school facilities are really nice. They just moved into this building a couple of weeks ago, so everything is brand new. Best of all, it was ICE COLD in there. This was a big relief to me.

6 comments:

Tony said...

I just love that you'll have a piano around which to practice your showtunes (and the occasional Siousxie and Moyet number as well).

Thrilled that this is happening for you. Sign me up as a volunteer bed-bathee before I'm reduced to resorting to those Real Singles bozos!

T x

Richard said...

I deleted the spam. I don't need viagra or homeowner's insurance at this time.

Anonymous said...

I am the proud mother of this blog owner. He is so brilliant. I couldn't ask for more in a wonderful son. However, I think he was absent on the day they learned to spell "lion".

Richard said...

That was intentional mom! I was being clever...you know...chemistry...ions...

oh forget it.
:)

Anonymous said...

that is not an "I". its definitely a lower case "L". so it says "lons".

Richard said...

I fixed it for you mom! ions. lower case.
case closed.
xo,
r.