Practice Runs

In my last post, I mentioned that I would be doing practice runs to make sure I could get from class to class in 10 minutes. Today was the first day I actually got out to try them. I spent an hour and a half going from my place to campus, finding all my classrooms, doing two of the three practice runs (and the one I didn't do is simply one of the others done in reverse) and coming home. The short run--chemistry lab to spanish--takes about 5 minutes, and the long run--english to chemistry--takes about 7 minutes, so even if you factor in other foot traffic and/or potential bad weather, 10 minutes should be a breeze.

While in the Chemistry Building--and yes, that's the actual name for it--I found this:

(okay, this is actually in the main lobby, directly across from the door, so finding it wasn't that hard)

Yes, that's a periodic table, complete with samples of most of the elements--very few of the high-numbered elements are stable enough for a display like this. Also, that screen just to the left of Boron (or to the right of the plaque with "Periodic Table of the Elements" on it) is a touch screen interactive table. Fancy, huh? Below are some of the individual elements. I'll let you figure out why I picked these ones.

If you're wondering, yes those circles in the tungsten picture are holes that you can reach your fingers through. There's at least one other element with holes in the glass like that.