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by PAM
I was rushing to the Center early morning today, excited and anxious to see what the results of the "kids" in the lab's "lab-or" during the last two days will reveal to us. Then, all of a sudden, the Autumn semester of 1995 at the Chem. E. Department of the Ohio State University came to mind. This was the music I was listening to that time...
"Good" by Better than Ezra... of the "Porcelain" fame, which is definitely in the shortlist of my fave songs. I think their album "Deluxe" was one of the things I bought for my personal CD collection after settling in at the OSU campus in Columbus, OH... making their music a part of the theme of my year of incredible adventures away from home! :)
Hmm, yeah... those were the days. It was all good then... it's been all good over the years, and it'll always be all good! :)
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Excellent professor + great experience = awesome memories
It's wonderful to see the leap that the OSU Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department has been taking lately. They are building a new "playground" for their "big boys and girls" - amazing! Drool! Nah, not jealous... in fact, I'm hopeful. :)
Incidentally, my former professor in "Advanced Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design", Prof. Umit Ozkan, just got appointed as OSU College of Engineering Distinguished Professor! It's very well deserved - totally!
Hmmm, man... I remember braving all those (VERY) cold mornings, walking a good kilometer or so from the Riverwatch Tower (oy!), to get to Dr. Ozkan's class... and she would always walk
OSU days... enjoying autumn by the
Olentangy River behind Riverwatch Tower.regally in her stilettos into the classroom with her mug of incredibly aromatic coffee and a dazzling smile... beautiful and all in her simple and yet classically stylish clothing in light refreshing colors - a ray of light amidst all that gloom in the fading lights of autumn. After her usual but very warm, "how are you, guys, this morning," she'd start talking about complex chemical reactions in constantly-stirred tank and plug flow reactors in her enviably very well modulated and yet, strangely enough, commanding voice and slight accent, so relaxed as if she was discussing a cozy evening she'd had the night before... and then she'd start whipping all those equations and Runge-Kutta stuff like it was second nature to her - very proper, feminine, ladylike, and yet she talked authoritatively about "traditionally masculine" stuff... aaw! And then she'd push it a bit in the realm of Catalysis... and all we were in her class were "all eager" to line up behind her to uncork all those exciting bottles of knowledge... and the corks popped merrily at her expert bidding. At the end of her lecture, you can't help but gush, "aw, gosh... life is beautiful! :)
Congratulations, Dr. Ozkan! We were BIG fans then... we are BIGGER fans now! :)
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Post-script
Oh, and as for the results of our "lab-or"... it's confusing than ever, gah! But, hey, tomorrow is another day... and next week is another week. And, I think it's called "adventure"? Yeah, I believe it is! :)
Yep, it's all good! :)
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Video credit: Thanks, peitzy9 on YouTube!
