My Roommate is a Sith

Yesterday my roommate Nate spent all day working on homework. He was frustrated, and I took a picture of it. He looks like a Sith from Star Wars!

Winter Banquet!

Tonight we had the annual Winter Banquet! This year the entertainment was an Illusionist! I thoroughly enjoyed the show! These are the Powers Kids with their dates!

Yesterday's Snow!

Two nights ago we had about 4 inches of snow. This is what campus looked like in the morning!

Nucor Steel Fieldtrip!!!

For Material Science we visited Nucor Steel Company, which, here in Kankakee makes rebar and stuff. I couldn't take my camera in, but I got a picture of the map. It is a really interesting process by which they make steel.


Here is the process they use:

Scrap metal is first placed in the Ladle, which holds 85 tons, and is brought to the Electric Arc Furnace. Here the scrap is melted at a temperature of around 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. Here the slag is also taken out and gotten rid of. Then the workers take a measurement of the chemical composition and add the amount of alloys that they need to. Then a huge crane brings it to a mixing place where they recheck the composition and add some more alloys if they need to. They use Nitrogen to mix the molten steel. Then the crane picks the Ladle up again, and brings it to the place where the ladle opens on the bottom and lets the steel empty into the bathtub like turndish. The molten steel then empties into the casts, where the steel is cast into 5.5 in by 5.5 in billet. These billets are cooled outside.

The billets are then taken and placed in a reheating furnace, where they are reheated to 2200 Fahrenheit. Once heated to 2200 degrees, the billets are pushed into a series of rollers which each squeeze the steel into a smaller shape. Finally, the steel is the size and shape it needs to be in, and it is cooled naturally to roughly 500 degrees Fahrenheit. Then they are cut into the client specified length and bound into a pack. Right before they are cut, samples are taken to double check the strength of the steel and see if it meets the requirements.

Last Chapel in Chalfant Hall

Today we had the last chapel in Chalfant hall. The jazz band played and they were awesome.

Mister Chin!

For my class we had to look at extremes in photography. This is a photograph of a reflection of my friend Clark using of a concave mirror.

A Picture of a Picture

For one of the class blogs we have to go extremes. This is my extreme. A picture of a wrinkled picture.

Snow In Illinois!

We had our first snow!!! Right now outside looks beautiful!

The Storm in Indiana

Yesterday I was visiting Liz's family in Indiana. After we arrived there on friday night, it snowed all night and it was gorgeous in the morning! (I also couldn't get internet, or this would have been up yesterday.)

Good Ol' Chapman!!

This is where I lived Freshman year! I love the building!

Walmart!!!

I went to Walmart!

Studying for Thermodynamics

Nate and I studied for our Thermo test till 12:15 tonight, and we were just getting loopy. Here's proof:

Oops!!!

I have forgotten to put up a picture yesterday. So, here it is. It had started snowing, and it accumulated faster than I thought it would.