Wednesday, January 16, 2013

List of Things I've Done That I Never Thought I'd Do

I keep thinking I should make a list about the things I have done in my life that I never thought I would do.  I keep thinking that it is amazing to think life will go one way and find out that we change in magical ways that we never thought we would.

So here's the list:
1. Performed an experiment with lasers
2. Used flame absorption spectroscopy to analyze sodium and calcium levels in both water and snow samples in Pittsburgh, PA (it was an analysis regarding road salt)
3. Helped build a playground in Turtle Creek, PA (I was on the spiral tube slide team.)
4. Performed a lab experiment about surface tension and recorded it on video
5. Used Excel to create a user-friendly dropdown menu mathematical model on the net energy balance of corn-ethanol
6. Presentation on the math portrayed in Alice in Wonderland
7. Volunteered at a Biofuel's Convention in Pennsylvania
8. Took the GRE and did well in it for only studying 2 weeks
9. I attended UC-Berkeley for a semester in their Civil and Environmental Engineering Master's program.
10. Rode the BART and the Subway
11. I've been to New York and have seen Ground Zero.
12. I've explored a monastery in New York.
13. I've toured pump stations, rate-of-flow stations, and the Hoover Dam.
14. I've seen construction sites with inspectors.
15. I've been a substitute teacher in middle school and high school math classes.
16. I've been a registration typist and worked at conventions.
17. I've been a bridesmaid and I even caught the bridal bouquet.
18. I've mastered cookie-baking.
19. I know how to sew and have even hemmed pants.
20. I can cook
21. I know how to use a soldering iron.
22. I've babysitted young children.
23. I've driven to Overton for a funeral by myself.
24. I've used statistical programming to perform linear regression analysis.
25. I wore braces for over 2 years and now I have straight teeth.
26. I've dressed up like the Easter Bunny #Mascot Style
27. I've had a hollowed out pumpkin jack-o-lantern on my head to be the Genetically Modified Pumpkin in a  Halloween maze
28. I've read a speech in front of people.
29. I've sent stories I've written in to contests.
30. I've been groundtruthing.
31. I've weighed ingredients to be used in a concrete canoe.
32. I've placed concrete on an oddly shaped mold.
33. I've sanded a concrete canoe.
34. I've performed a Modified Proctor test.
35. I've used an air-compressor to remove concrete cylinders from molds.
36. I've polished a brass bent statue with Greek letters on it.
37. Hit a metal plate with a sledgehammer to create P-waves that were picked up by geophones (seismic waves lab experiment!) (I was the only girl who wanted to swing the hammer, by the way.)
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