Week 7 Participation Question and Weekly Message

 Happy Week 7!


I'll update with the weekly message in the next day or so, but here is the Weekly Participation is provided below.

Congratulations!  We've made it half-way through the semester.  I know it has been hard and often isolating, but we've done it! 

We will finish granular media filtration and will start disinfection on Monday. Tutorial 2 (water and wastewater infrastructure scavenger hunt) is posted in the Sedimentation and Filtration homework folders. The dropbox is located in the Tutorial folder. I will post Mini-Design 2 within the next few days. It will be due Wednesday, November 4. 

The schedule for the next two weeks is below:

Week of 10/18:

Sunday 11:59 pm: Participation question is due

Monday: Start disinfection unit

Tuesday tutorial: If the weather cooperates, go on the scavenger hunt! We will not have a lecture/ guest speaker.

Wednesday 11:59 pm: Homework on sedimentation is due

Friday: Class as usual and next participation question will open

 

Week of 10/25:

Sunday 11:59 pm: Participation question is due

Monday: Start ion exchange unit

Tuesday tutorial: Video tour (live) and visit with Thomas Sibley, Supervisor of the MSU water treatment plant. Watch pre-recorded lecture on iron and manganese removal before tutorial.

Wednesday 11:59 pm: Homework on filtration and Tutorial 2 are due.

Friday: Class as usual and next participation question will open

 

Participation Question:

It's hard sometimes not to be consumed by worry; worrying about the state of the world, our families, our grade on the next assignment, deadlines, the upcoming election, etc.

Our friend Pluto talks about worry-busters. Pluto suggests a number of worry-busters like playing with a four-legged friend, drawing a portrait of them (because you can't worry and draw at the same time), practicing to type the word lollipop with your left hand (apparently it's one of the only words in the English language that can be typed entirely with one's right hand - can you think of others?), or coming up with ten-letter words using only the top letters on the keyboard (you can reuse letters, according to Pluto).

What are your worry-busters? If you would like, please share your ideas and suggestions with your classmates in the comments below.

(And as with all participation questions, if you do not wish to answer, feel free to tell me anything - your favorite food, your pet's name, etc.) 

 

 And just a few photos from my daily walks:




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