Friday I'm in Love

The first full week back is always tough with getting used to being back at school 8-4 daily but at the end of it, the pain resembles ripping off a band aid cause it is almost Friday!!!!!! 

Classmate Joe running through our Research
project

Highlight of the week was finally getting our research project off the ground.  We ran a trial run with a few of our classmates who did not qualify to be in the study and after working out the minor flaws, were able to start signing people up to be our participants.  And (drum roll), we are going to start collecting data next week and all of my group members are looking forward to getting this going!

Emily and I also began teaching the Physics Lab classes again this week.  This semester we are teaching two sections of the Physics 1760 lab (the next course following the one we taught last semester).  We have a few familiar faces but most are new which is always fun!  The best part about teaching the lab is when the student is struggling with a concept and after walking through it they get it and can explain it back to me.  This evening we looked at the relationships between degrees, radians and radius and how they affect linear and rotational motion.  It was a very interesting concept to start the semester off with.

Part of the lab where students looked at how different lengths of
radius' (their arms) affected the circumference of a circle.

Now that it is the weekend (thank the heavens above!) it is time to drive down to Springfield, MO and spend most of my weekend watching my little sister in swimming and diving competitions, and hang out with my cousin Eric who is doing a pharmacy residency there for the year.  Oh and shout out to my sister who qualified for state diving this past week! So excited! 

Have a beautiful weekend!