Titanium

I had my first day of orientation today...a 9 to 5 supersaturate your minds with facts, information, and other random things affair. It was a pretty great first day...on my way walking in I noticed that the 3 people in front of me were all wearing Birkenstocks - clearly a good omen. For those of you who don't know me too well, I have what some could call a Birki fetish (I own 5 pairs). Things continued to be great when we had to find our "pair" among all of the School of Education graduate students at a lunch function. My "Snow White" was sitting literally two seats down from me (I was the 7 dwarfs) so we ended up winning a free lunch to a place in town. Snow White was pretty cool - he break dances with a group on campus and invited me to their practice so I might go and just take some sweet pictures.

My cohort, originally 14, has dwindled to 12 because of deferments. I am OFFICIALLY the youngest of the bunch, but surprisingly I fit in well with the rest of the group. There is also an older woman who is SO lovely and I really want to get to know her more. We talked a bit at lunch and she is just so kind and motherly (a bit of something I am missing right now being away from the mama).

And Libby would be so proud of me because I came to appreciate Skidmore today. I am thankful for my opportunity to have taken classes in any subject outside of my major. To my professors of Ed Psych, School and Society, and Intro to Teaching - you have no idea how important your classes are to me now.


Fun Fact: Because it is nonrusting, nonallergenic, and extremely strong, titanium is used for artificial joints (ex. hips) and dental implants. This was discovered by accident in 1952 when Swedish doctor Per-Ingvar Branemark was studying bone marrow. He was using a transparent titanium window to see inside of rabbit bones but noticed that the body adapted to the titanium and built it into the bone.