First Week of Labs

It has been a while since my last update. It is hard to believe that I have already been here for 10 days seems like I just got to Copenhagen yesterday. I have had the opportunity to meet most of the other students taking the lab class at DTU there are about 30-40 of us in all with all but 5 from Virginia Tech. There are 4 people from Case Western Reserve and then there is me. I was nervous when I found out that I would be partnered with a Virginia Tech student because they only receive a pass/fail for this class where I receive a grade that counts towards my GPA. Luckily my partner (Aaron) is an extremely diligent worker and I'm now more worried about me not letting him down with my work.

So far we have done two labs, flow through a packed column and filtration. The set ups are very impressive, seeing them I'm interested in how they would compare to the Units of Operations labs at Purdue. The labs are pretty intense and are definitely no cook book recipe. The writing of the lab reports has taken a little longer than I thought they would but I'm confident that after we get our first to back it will give insight to what the grader (from Virginia Tech) wants and make writing them a lot easier. This week our two labs are Batch Distillation and Distillation through bubble cap trays. I'm hoping that they won't be too bad.

That is about all the school work talk I can stand for now. I've been playing quite a bit of soccer with the other students here and forgot how much fun it is. Friday night we all hung out together and watched two of the guys successfully complete a bet of drinking 10 Irish car bombs in 1 hour. Saturday was a pretty lazy day for me, I spent a good portion exploring Lyngby and getting groceries. Today has been spent polishing up a lab report and getting ready for lab on monday. I'm hoping on monday to figure out the train system well enough so I can go to an Ultimate practice for one of the local Copenhagen teams, we'll see if I figure it out or not.

Below is a picture of my room definitely and improvement over the dorms at purdue (this is for you mom).