21 July 2013

Glass and Bigger Waterfalls

Today is a Sunday. I meant to go into work, make some progress on my report so that I can keep moving forward with my phonon calculations, but it is an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day and I just can't seem to make it to the windowless basement office to stare at numbers. I just, I can't.

So instead, I am sitting at a shaded table in front of the Human Ecology building (my new favorite spot to work, and eat lunch) writing a long-overdue blog post and enjoying the gorgeous weather and a bottled iced tea from Wegman's.

We took two trips this week for the REU program: a trip to Corning, NY which involved visiting the Corning Museum of Glass and the main research facility for Corning, Inc. (where they make--you guessed it--glass); and a day-long trip to Niagara Falls. The post that follows is full of pictures. :)