This afternoon two universities that gave me pieces of parchment with foil on them played football. It was an alma mater showdown. My first allegiance is to Temple University because I earned my undergrad degree there. So I went to a very blue and white Beaver Stadium wearing cherry and white.
The weather was amazing. Sun [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Penn State’
September 19, 2009
An Alma Mater Showdown
August 25, 2009
Keeping a Promise = Golfing
A few weeks ago I promised myself I would play a round of golf before August ended. But then my schedule became rather crazy, and each time I made a tentative tee time with myself it fell through. I began to doubt me.
The weather today was absolutely spectacular. As I sat in the lab looking [...]
August 13, 2009
Going Back to My Roots
My time has been dominated by data collection and final processing of my two summer fir experiments. Today I spent the day working with my flooding experiment. I washed roots and prepared shoots and roots for drying. Even though I stayed late I’m not quite to the halfway point yet. Tomorrow might be a long [...]
July 18, 2009
A Saturday Campus Mosey
Today I had a few hours of work to do on campus. After I finished it up I decided to walk around campus and collect a few plant pictures. My collection of plant pictures has steadily grown over the past several years. No matter how many I take there are always more that I need. So [...]
June 1, 2009
A Prompt Notification
Bicycle registration at University Park runs on a June-May schedule. I’ve registered my bike for the past three years, each time well before the May 31 deadline. This year I did not. I stopped by the little kiosk on Pollack Road a few times in the past week, but no one was there to handle the registration.
This [...]
