Posts Tagged as ‘Penn State’

September 19, 2009

An Alma Mater Showdown

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 [...]

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 [...]