I do not have a great reason why I went to my 12 o’clock Intro to Foods class today. But, I did. It is, what I would call, an easy high school class. Attendance not required. I walked away with a funny story. The class is 50 minutes long. 25 minutes in, two guys enter the class and sit one row behind me. The only though running through my head: “Why bother?”. They sit down, no notes, and one of them has chosen to eat an apple. Ten minutes later, I realize we’re getting close to the end of the notes packet, and we are going to adjourn prematurely today. I laugh a little on the inside, because not only did these guys show up with the maximum potential of only getting half the lecture material, but now they aren’t even going to get that. So class ends, and I stand up to leave. The apple eater asks me a direct question, “What class is this?”. “Wow,” I think to myself, “he’s gotten so little from today’s class that he’s not entirely sure he even entered the correct classroom.” No, I was wrong. “FSHN 101,” I said. The girl sitting beside me asks them, “Aren’t you in this class?” I was going to avoid that question. “No,” the non-apple eater remarks, “we just got out of our last class early and came for the comfy chairs.” I exited my row and left the building. That’s my story for the day.
One more thing before I go, which I thought of as I was walking back from said class. Why is it that we put salt on the ground to melt the snow, but in chemistry, we mix it with ice to make the ice colder?
kyle
scott
guess not.
January 26, 2007
Salt lowers the freezing point of water so when you put it on the snow, it lowers it freezing point and melts it.