Trouble and opportunity at college

Trouble:  Yesterday, Lorena and the kids ran down to Johnston Community College in Smithfield so Kelly could take her US History II CLEP test.  They got there just fine, but about halfway through the test, the fire alarm went off.  It seems that someone had left their popcorn in the microwave too long.  So, our friend Ciara, the test administrator had to pause all the test computers and clear the building.  After the fire department checked everything out, all the test takers filed back into the room, Ciara unpaused the computers and everyone finished their test.  It was not an optimal performance for Kelly.  The test conditions did not help, but Kelly got an adequate score and we have some ideas on how to improve the study procedures for when Christian takes his history tests next year, so we are not at all unhappy.  I will discuss in a few days when I update our Homeschool:  How to Prepare For CLEP tests – US History post with how we did and what we learned from this last test.

Opportunity:  While the rest of the family was off taking tests, I met Troy at NCSU.  We went to visit one of his professors.  I had a GREAT time.  We had quite a long discussion about a lot of interesting things having to do with the measurement of water and water quality.  I am not going to talk about it in a whole lot of detail on this blog, but as a result of the meeting, Troy and I are firing up a project that will use similar technology to the volcano computer.  I think Troy might be the one that wants to do some of the documentation of this on his water blog, although we might host some real-time logging on the chapmankids.net site.  Stay tuned.