Hello all!

Today was a busy day, as all good days are, sometimes. Anyways, it started out extremely interesting as I met the mysterious bad parker of building 11. Apparently, whoever they are, they always park on the line so that no car is to close to theirs. Usually it’s in the back, but today they were in the front row, so many, many more people saw them. Here’s what it looked like:

Incredibly rude, right? If you say no, I want you to move your car now. Literally, stop reading and move your car to the appropriate position. Done? Now let’s continue.

Today’s first task was aldehyde testing, and as we moved to Johnson building for the appropriate equipment, we ran across this little guy here:

… Or maybe not so little. The point is, the only reason I noticed was a startled scream that shocked me into stopping. That was fun, if slightly scary. Taking the long path due to Mrs. Michelle’s insistence, we finally arrived at our destination.

Now, we all know classroom work hardly seems like work in real life, right? Well, aldehyde sampling is a lot like classroom work, where we mix a bunch of chemicals and measure the results, but with this fancy machine:

Which is a HPLC system, or high pressure liquid chromatography system. This does a lot of minor measurements and records data that the naked eye wouldn’t normally see.

Anyways, after that we ate my final lunch at RTI before heading to meet Leag Johnson, a biochemist at RTI. After that meeting, I prepared sample filters for equilibration and post ODs/graphs.

Hope you enjoyed my day!

Cameron L.

P.S. Here’s some extras from today.

Hazardous waste dispenser 

Funny sign

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Video of vacumn to get rid Air/gas

Containers for the aldehyde