Intermolecular Forces & the Evaporation of Liquids

Summary

In this experiment, we experimented with intermolecular forces and the evaporation of liquids. You already know what liquids we used, so I won’t bore you with those details. You probably know basically what results we got as well, because you’ve probably done a similar experiment before, so I won’t waste any of your time with that, either. I’m sure you’re very busy, so I’ll give you a little bit more free time. Also, I’m sure you know the concepts we “learned” in this lab, so again, you’re off the hook there. You don’t have to worry about reading another entire lab report. I know, it’s a relief, isn’t it? You deserve a break. In fact, why don’t you take a break after you put this down? That’s right. It’s been a long day. Rest your eyes. Go get yourself a blanket and that book you haven’t touched in a week, and a nice hot cup of tea, and just sit back and chill for a while. Maybe even all evening. After all, you’ve been working really hard lately. Yes, people notice, and they really appreciate you. So kick back, take a break, and when it comes time to grade this lab report, just remember how nice that break was…

So, I really need some prayer right now. I'm under attack, and I'm starting to lose the fight. I'm getting depressed, over school, Zambia funds, and other stuff. I'm getting distracted; I didn't finish the lab report I was going to do today (thankfully it's due tomorrow), and I haven't studied for my theater test tomorrow. I'm demotivated, and on an emotional roller coaster, slowing gliding to a stop. I feel like I know what I need to do, but then I don't...

I've had "100 Degrees and You're Still Smiling" stuck in my head today. Awesome song. Wish I could hear it again. So true.

I'm tired, but I stay up til midnight.

Bye.

If I...

Wrote a full blog entry about every time God did something amazing, it would be like a whole newspaper! So, I'll just sum up tonight real quick. I went to this small group called a lifegroup, right on the quad (can you say "Yes, that's exactly what I needed and was looking for!!"?) earlier this evening. Normally, we'll worship, then have basically a Bible study. I say "normally," but this is only the second time I've gone, so I don't really know except that the guy said that we were going to "shake things up a little bit" and do some different stuff tonight. This was after some awesome testimonies, and even awesomer worship. The different stuff he was talking about was just walking around campus telling people about Jesus. Yeah. Talk about awesome!! We just split up into groups and then walked around, looking for people for the Holy Spirit to lead us to talk to. I went with my buddy that was there, Terence, because I had never done this before (but I've been thinking lately of how I don't talk to people about Jesus enough... Yeah. Coincidence? I think not. God is too big for coincidences), I admire his faith and his confidence in speaking to people, and because he's my buddy and I would really like to get to know him better than I do. So anyways, we talked to three people. We only had an hour, and the time flew by. The first guy is a junior in our outfit, and he said that he was raised Methodist, but hasn't really thought much about Jesus lately, so I told him about our morning prayer group and invited him to join us, and then we prayed for him. He asked what we were doing, and couldn't really believe it when we told him we were just walking around telling people about Jesus. So then the second guy we talked to had a bunch of stuff wrong in his head. I'm not saying he was crazy; mentally, he seemed totally fine. But as far as what he believed, I'm not exactly sure he really even knew. He said he's Catholic, but he didn't really understand or know a whole lot about Jesus, and he was talking about stuff like purgatory (which to me will always be a ski resort). So we talked to him a lot, telling him what Jesus did to pay for our sins, and how much He loves us. Terence gave him this little track... tract?... this little booklet thing, that he had been showing him to illustrate why Jesus had to die for us and how to be saved, and the guy said that he would look at it and think about. Terence told me after he left that he (Terence) saw that the guy needed to get stuff in his head straightened out, so he let him go. We prayed for him after he left, and went on. The last guy we talked to was actually the chaplain for a major unit in the corps. Terence just told him that Jesus loves him, and then we started talking, sharing some testimonies, stuff like that, and then we left after praying with him. It was really cool; I think God had us meet with him just to encourage him. So anyways, that was a "short" version of what happened tonight. I think it was pretty awesome, and it makes me really want to do it again. It's not easy to do; Terence was talking a lot, and I just stood there most of the time. But it's definitely worth it, and the other guys who had done it before said that it can be tough when you first do it. I don't know, it's kind of weird thinking of sharing Jesus like selling something, but the way we approach it is pretty similar. You sell something because you want that other person to have it. Well, we have Jesus, the reason for the world, and we can't keep Him all to ourselves! We have to go tell people about Him!

So, I have a challenge for you. Actually, it's a challenge for me as well. Go to that person. You know who. That person that you see every day, or however regularly. Tell them about Jesus. Don't wait for the conversation to head that direction, bring it up. You don't have to walk up to someone and say "Hey, do you know Jesus?" although that is one way to do it. Pull out your Bible, and when they ask about it, ask them if they read their Bible. Start talking about church, a song you heard, anything. Just remember: you have the greatest news in the world, in all of creation!! If someone gave you a new iPad, you would show your friends, you would pull it out in class to use to take notes with, you would put your calendar on it (maybe your Bible, too), and let people see it, and then talk to them about it, show it to them, tell them all about it and all the great things it does. You see where this is going? Jesus is so much better than an iPad, or anything else you could possibly imagine! And if that's not how you feel about Him, then you need to spend some time reading about His life, His ministry, and most importantly, His death and resurrection. Discover what an amazing gift you have, and go share that gift with others. After all, Jesus did say, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..."

So I've been thinking...

Maybe....

So, over spring break, I went to Colorado to go skiing. Yay! We drove there and back, and, for me, two whole days of sitting in a car means lots of thinking. And here's what I came up with.

So, things are changing. Think about it (I did, a lot). Think about everything. No, that's not big enough. Everything. Everywhere. All of creation. All of it. Yeah, I know, that's a lot. There's a lot to be said just about that. But anyways, still think about all of creation. Now think about this: it's always changing. Always. There is never a single moment in time, no matter how short, that is exactly like anytime previous, and there will never be another moment in time exactly like it, either. Even those giant stars that can last millions and billions of years, can only last that long. They have a limited lifespan. Everything does. Anything that changes, ends. It has to, because any change is bringing it closer to its end. Even if something doesn't appear to be changing, you get small enough, and something is moving, and moving means change, and change means end. Everything changes, everything has an end. Everything. You do, I do, the earth, the sun, stars, galaxies, caterpillars. Everything. There will be an end to all things. Now, I got to this point in my thinking, and I got pretty depressed. Sure, this means bad stuff will end. I've used this thought before as motivation to keep pushing through smokings and stuff. But good things end, too. The spring break trip. Over. Last summer is over, and at some point in time, this coming summer, what we're all looking forward to, will be over as well, and then all we are left with are memories. Only memories. Good memories, bad memories, they may bring emotions, but they don't bring back what happened. Talk to a young person, and what do they have? Nothing but ambitions! Talk to an old person, and what do they have? Nothing but memories. So what's the point of anything? It all just ends anyway. You build something up, someone else tears it down, if it doesn't fall on its own. You buy something, it breaks down (this is especially true of cars). Say something, and it's lost in the wind immediately. There's a History Channel show about "life after humans," where they predict what the world would be like if all the humans on the planet disappeared suddenly. They go from a few hours, a few days after, to thousands, and millions, of years. In the end, the only thing left that even hints of a civilization is our fossils. Nothing lasts forever. So, I'm thinking about this kind of stuff, and getting pretty depressed, when I pulled up a thought I had been saving in the back of my mind. Everything ends...  Except God. He is unchanging, therefore He is eternal, and vice versa. He never changes. Never. You can't put faith in anything except God, because nothing will stand still, except for God. Nothing will be there forever, except for God. Words are slow, and sorely ineffective. Stop and think about everything I've said. Really think about it. It's pretty crazy. So, why does everything change? Why is there an end to everything we see around us? Creation sings praises to its Creator; why is it temporary, and, in our case, so imperfect? I don't fully know the answer to that question, except I know that it's part of God's plan because it will bring Him the most glory, and I know this: it sure makes you long for home, doesn't it? Thinking about how nothing stays the same, nothing lasts forever, I can't wait for eternity with our unchanging, perfect God. Or as Matthew West puts it, "Maybe the reason for all hope, is so we can face the world, and the reason for the world is to make us long for home."

I typed this last night

So, I'm staying up later than I should... Again... I had a physics test earlier this evening. It was poopy, but not quite as bad as the last one. I think I did ok. I hope I did, because I'm Q-dropping the class if I didn't. Poop...

Rockstar ENERGY GUM!!!

That glare is on purpose, sort of.

I'll finish the rest tomorrow. Goodnight.

... So, it's Wednesday morning! Good Morning!! I don't really have anything else good to say in this post, so here:

Lets try this again

Ok, let's see if this works. You should see me.

"They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do."
1 Peter 2:8b

Oh, poop...

Look, its me!

Android app "androidify." Ok, I seriously need to stop distracting myself and go to bed. Goodnight!

Death of me

Have you heard of StumbleUpon? It's a website. If you've never heard of it, and you want to ever make something of your life, DON'T VISIT THAT SITE. If you've already gone, or worse yet, have an account, I'm sorry. I'm sure there's hope... maybe...

StumbleUpon must be the single worst enemy/best friend of the college student. You start by setting up an account (you don't even have to do this, but it's the only way to save your preferences and all). No incriminating information or anything, just the typical name, screen name, email, etc. Then, you select what you like from a huge list of topics. Games, art, music, history, health and fitness, humor, you name it. You select as many or as few as you like. Then - and here's where it gets bad - a toolbar appears at the top of your window (only while you're using the site), and on the left side of it is this pretty black button that says "Stumble!" Click it, and StumbleUpon will take you to a random site in one of your topics of interest. Like it? Say so with the like button, and even share it on Facebook, Twitter, or some other site I've never heard of. Don't like it? Click the dislike button and move on! Bored with that page? Just click the stumble button and it'll take you to a new site! It even learns what you like and dislike more, and adjusts where you go accordingly. Yeah, I'm pretty convinced that this was created by someone who didn't get many college scholarships. Why? Simple. He or she created this site to distract college kids, cause them to stop studying, fail their classes, drop out of college, and open up more scholarship opportunities! See? I told you that site is evil. But it gets worse...

Open up a new tab. If you don't have Google Chrome, download it now and start using it instead of Internet Explorer or Firefox (or, even worse, Safari). That has nothing to do with what you're about to do, Chrome is just better than whatever you're using. Anyways, type "futility closet" into the thing at the top that you type words into. If you didn't do what I told you, you'll have to either go to Google or use the little search bar that's part of the collection of toolbars taking up half your browser window. Click on the first result (www.futilitycloset.com)... Yeah... Uh huh... I know, right? Click on the random button on the right. Yeah, the title of this post isn't about StumbleUpon. I only opened with that because StumbleUpon brought me to this site, and I'm pretty sure it is going to be the death of me. It's awesome!! Some of those things are genius! Most of them are just interesting to read. There are links to other sites, too, with other cool things, stories, whatever. And I've googled some of the wild stuff on there ("I don't know... google it."), and it's legit. Like the guy with three legs! There's a story about this guy with three legs, four feet, and sixteen toes. He played football (soccer). I know, lawlz, because he has so many feet. He only did it for show, though. Anyway, yeah, check that out, but don't stay up all night on it. I have a test tomorrow afternoon. Goodnight.

The following what happens when the above text is translated by computer ten times. See http://tashian.com/multibabel/


They have the felt to say StumbleUpon? It' S a Web site. You' 5. never felt do not make the demand of and you too much never do something your length, DON' T THAT VISUALIZES THIS PLACE. You' 5. or still GONE false already, it has a client, I' sad M. I' the M. there' straightens; Hope of S… possibly…  StumbleUpon must be the simple enemy of falschste/de the best friend of the university student. They begin, installing to a client (they don' T must also do this, but it' S the unique method in sequence protects its preferences and everything). No information or something of the accusation, also of they them typical names, they them names he visualization, he email, the etc. then, selects him, that it appreciates of an enormous list of the arguments. The games, the art, music, history, health and the physical form, tendency, designated-lheos. They select so very, or they only appreciate. Then - and here' S, where one gets to be false - a post of the tool of the bar only appears with the end of its indicator (during you' The right of which empreg the places) and the left is this one a small black key, than " video; Course! " Unblocking and carreg from StumbleUpon to an occasional place in one of its arguments of the interest. How? Because the key relation of processing-the same is famous with similar and in Facebook, Gezwitscher or a another I' place; 5. do not speak in all the presumption. Don' t gradice? Unblocking to the key of the aversion and they exceed her! Of the uproar with this pagination? To unblock Juste the key of the Stolperns and it' ll these capacities to a new place! It learns, also this more and regulated it can diar to him to him, where GONE therefore. Yes I' the M. sufficiently convinced that somebody the servant of estêve, didn' T receives much stock-market of action of the university. Why? Simply. or they made this place to leave the end to have it of the children of the university who study the apprehension in the order his ingualmente of the classes the end to go the end to fall of the university and more possibility of action stock-market so that the order has! They see? I said it that the place is false. But this gets to be false…  Still it opens a vector. Don' T has this chromium of Google, now the casting and to begin to use it instead of Internet Explorer or Firefox (or, also erroneous, safari). This does not have anything, also, to do this you' The right rent-that produces that it will approach, is chromium simply better than all the you' Straight of Empreg all the events you write " uselessness of closet" in the thing with the end where type of the words. Didn' T does, what I said it, you' ll google or to the use little bar that' of the search must go; The part of S of the collection of the post of the tool of the bar, takes half of its indicator of the navigator. To unblock ignition in the function the first result (www.futilitycloset.com)… Yes… Uh huh… Weis I, sufficiently? That is freed to ignition in the function sufficiently the ignited occasional key throughout the obtained paginations. Yes the title this post office isn' T in StumbleUpon. I April I only with that one, because StumbleUpon obtained to these the place and the I' I; the M. that acidifies this is small inoperative women of me. It' Impressive S!  Some these things would hunt! It is simply interesting lira more among them. It is left ingualmente with the other with other new things, history, all the equal of the places some this. E-I ' the fifth part of the savage of the substance googled in here (" Don' T knows… Google it.") and it' The game of gradice S. the type with three feet! There' S a history in these types with three feet, four feet and sixteen toes. Soccer played soccer (). I know, lawlz, because it has many feet. It only did in the demonstration, despite a all the events controlled this yes, but in don' it is; It continues being T to sharpen at night finds out the expensive outpost. I have a morning of the test tomorrow. Good night.  The following one, of that happens, if the text especific caught is ten times translates of the computers. You see http://tashian.com/multibabel/

Found out about that on futility closet, too.

With him it discovers in this argument in the closet of uselessness, also

Worst Week Ever

Man!! You know what? I'm super happy!! Even though I don't really feel like it sometimes... God is so awesome!!! So yesterday, I went to a church I hadn't been to before with one of my buddies, and it was really cool. The worship music was slightly different than what I'm used to, but it was still good, genuine worship, so it was awesome. Then I went home to drop off some laundry (hey, I'm in college), and then went up to Chris' place to go to The Austin Stone. I went just to talk to them about Zambia, but also for the service (last time I went was a long time ago, but it was awesome). The worship was awesome, the service was awesomer, but really tough. Like, it's making me look at... everything... I don't know, it's weird, but I've been thinking about it a lot since then (which was barely more than 24 hours ago). It was about "election," (or it was called something like that), which is the belief that God predestines people to be saved. This guy basically just read scripture and said "Look, see what it says here? Yeah..." I don't really know how to adequately explain what all he said. Basically, it's like, God chooses to save us. It's all Him; we have nothing to do with our being saved. Like, we can't even choose to accept Him, because then some credit would go to us. Without Christ, if we are given the choice between God or sin, we'll choose sin every single time. I don't know if I'm explaining that right... I don't really know. I'm still trying to sort everything out myself. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think. It's a tough topic, though, and I bet it'll be pretty touchy with most people. Please don't start bashing anyone or anything like that. We're saved by Christ's sacrifice, and our sole purpose is to bring Him glory. That's all that matters.

Anyways, after the service, I went to eat with the group I rode with, and then everyone got dropped off, Chris and I being last. So, I didn't even leave Chris' place till like 11:20, and I don't think I left Buda until 12:15 or so, but then I had to stop on the way because I was running out of gas. I got to sleep sometime around 3:20. But that's ok, because I was able to take a bag-in this morning :) I got up at 8:15 for Army, though, and it turned out I could've slept in until 10:45 and not missed

anything. Oh well. It just means I need to go to sleep... now... Oh, the life of a Corps person. So, I have a Chem test Thursday, along with a quiz in theater over a play I haven't read yet... the next two days are going to be wonderful...

Speaking of which, we're playing music from the Wizard of Oz in our next concert, and the tubas have a soli for If I Only Had a Brain. Awesome.

Dumb

Went to Galveston today with the band for a Mardi Gras parade. It was dumb. It was cold, so we took our black jackets and our raincoats, which we don't normally wear in B's. But then, when we got there, someone decided "Oh, hey, maybe we shouldn't wear our jackets," so the whole band was freezing the entire time. The parade wasn't any good either. I've never seen so many drunk people in my life. Beads were being thrown at us from every direction the entire way, and those things hurt when they hit you. It was also really stop and go, and my bass was messed up so it was hard to play. Then after that, we got fed. It was dumb. The food was good, but all the good stuff was gone by the time I got there, cuz I was on the last bus (it's all about me, btw). Then our bus stopped on the way back to College Station. Dumb. We just got back a little while ago. I like using italics. We got fed twice, which was cool, I guess, but it didn't make it worth it. It's not like the parade did us much good. But oh well. It's over now.

I have somewhere to go to church tomorrow! I'm going with my buddy to Antioch. I don't know what kind of church it is, but I think I've heard of it before. I'll see how it is. I can't believe I'm still looking for a church to regularly attend. I guess it just shows how much I go home on the weekends... Ok, I gotta get some sleep. Night yall!

Who am I?

Don't worry, this isn't a philosophical post about my identity or anything like that. I just saw the movie "Unknown" with Brian. It was really cool. It was about this guy whose identity gets stolen (I won't say more, in case you want to see it), and it's an action thriller movie. One of those kind of movies that you drive home from really fast and alert, like you're on a mission and/or running from someone. And rocket launchers. There are rocket launchers somewhere. Just 'cause. But anyways, that's what I did after going to Chili's with Katrina and Brian. It was cool, and really good. Now I've got to get some sleep, cuz we're running tomorrow morning. It's supposed to be a really cool run, because this really cool First Sergeant in the Army is leading it or something. I don't know, but he's a really cool guy, and everyone likes him. I also heard that it'll be easy, because he wants everyone to stay in for the whole run. I slept through physics today in the second row, close enough to the prof that he could probably see the red marks on my face from my hand. And I like turtles.












Allen! Allen! Allen!!

Forgot to blog tonight, sorry, so I'll text in. Didn't drown (that's good), had free bbq and fno, 2 Bible studies, God's so awesome, hung out with brian. Night!

that was close

Ok, one more post on the balrogglegog tonight. So, I planned on just posting "nothing eventful happened since my last post... goodnight," but something eventful did happen. Sorta. I mean, it really happened, but I don't really know how eventful it really was. Ok, maybe I should tell you what it was. I did my chemistry homework that was due tonight, and, due to my computer being slow, me not having much light to work by, and there being soo many questions, I cut it pretty close to the due time.

I got that no more than a minute after I finished the last question. I did everything except the last six assignments before today, and then I did all but the last one in probably about an hour total. That last one was RIDICULOUS. I mean, look at it!! 4 of 4, 1 of 1, 1 of 1, 1 of 1.... 26 of 26!! And most of those 26 questions were made up of more questions!! I very much dislike this online homework site thing.

On the plus side, I get to do a treading water competition tomorrow at like 5:30... yeah, that's not a plus...

Goodnight, faithful boglogelol followers.

Yeah, that didn't last...

So much for posting something every day. I guess what I should have said was "I'll try to maybe start possible posting stuff a little more often... probably."

Today was Tuesday. In fact, it still is Tuesday. In fact, I won't be going to sleep for a while, so I'll have to either post again later tonight, or remember whatever happens after this point and brog about it later... I'll post again later. Stay tuned! No, really, stay in tune. It's annoying when people get out of tune and don't even notice, or worse, don't care. I'm always in tune. FOREVER.

Today is Silver Taps.

Silver Taps is the student body's final tribute paid to an Aggie who, at the time of his/her death, was enrolled in undergraduate or graduate classes at Texas A&M. The notice is posted at the base of the flagpole in front of the Academic Building.

That was a campo. Because I told that to you, you'll never join the corps. They tell us at the training meetings for this recruiting thing I joined (it's just like my cutco job, except worse, and I don't get paid) that the number one rule for recruiting is DO NOT RECITE CAMPOS. I recited a campo. Sorry for ruining you.

Anyway, Silver Taps is actually pretty cool. It's a ceremony to honor all current students who died in the past month. It's held on the first Tuesday of each month, if anyone died in the past month. Sadly, every month I've been here has had a Silver Taps. It starts with a 21 gun salute, then a special version of taps (played with two bugles) is played three times, once to the north, south, and west, but not to the east, because the sun will never rise on those Aggies again. So that's Silver Taps. It happens at 10:30 tonight.

So today... nothing really special happened... I ate breakfast, went to a prayer meeting, went to class, went to a coffee shop with some buddies (it's becoming a Tuesday tradition for us), went to class, ate lunch, took a nap, went to class, pretended to study, went to class, studied for real, ate dinner, studied some more, and now I'm broggling!! I have a little bit more chemistry for tonight, but I'm pretty close to finishing.

So, we have this daily prayer meeting in our First Sergeant & Gunnery Sergeant's room. It's awesome. Like, it's the best way to start out the day, hands down. It's so cool to get together with some hardcore believers and pray for each other, even if just for a few minutes every morning. We pretty much just cover prayer requests, but we kinda mix up how we pray. Like, we started out going in a circle praying for the needs of the person next in line, then one time we went in a circle and each person read a verse from a psalm, then prayed about it, the next person read the next verse, prayed, etc. Today we split into pairs (one group of three) and prayed for each other. My partner and I finished before most everyone else (there were 9 people, I think), so I prayed for the other people on the list (we have requests for everyone in the meeting, then other people to pray for). It was really cool.

BTdubs (that's btw, or by the way), please keep praying for my mission trip. I haven't said much about it lately on my blrog, but I've been pretty worried about the money lately, so today I decided I'm giving all my worries about raising money for the trip to God. I'm still going to send out another letter like I planned, but I'm not going to fret about the money. It'll come. God can handle it, no problem. So, with that aside, I'm so excited to be going to Zambia!!!

I guess that's all for now. I kinda need to get ready for Silver Taps. I'll continue bolrogging later. Toodles!