Wednesday

I went on the UW Engineering tour. It was very educational and I learned a lot about what they look for in in-coming students. One thing that I found fascinating was a comment our tour guide made about math. He said that very often students who have taken a lot of AP math classes in high school come in without a depth of knowledge in the more basic math curriculum, and therefor struggle in college. It seems that we are pushing accelaration too much in education right now.
I also found the nuclear power plant tour very interesting. Our presenter illustrated how vulnerable our athmosphere is, and it is scary to think how CO2 emissions are just going to accelerate more with China and India cathching up with our western energy consumption. He said that if those countries don't change their dependency on coal, all the conservation we do here is virtually pointless. I am re-thinking my anti-nuclear stance.