I feel like there has actually been more “hmmm…..” moments for me this summer than “Ah-Ha!” moments. I have learned a great deal this summer about chickens, salmonella, technology, and just how teachers with vast backgrounds try to come to the same consensus on something. More of my thought provoking moments have come more from the interaction with my other colleagues on the project. Some are directly related to our work with NC State here’s a few of those hmmm….moments

1. Chickens can have salmonella and not be affected. However, we as humans become extremely sick when it enters our body.

2. Math actually matters….I’ve used way more math in the micro. lab than I ever thought I would need to.

3. Poop will find its way into every conversation….especially if you’re working with chicken poop all summer.

4. Lauren and I will find anyway to make Kenan Fellows fund our fake wedding.

5. Teachers will do anything for sweets

6 There is no sex in the Champaign room…..don’t ask….

7. I am not a curriculum writer…..that’s what they tell me…..

8. When you break a fancy piece of science equipment no matter how great of a story you come up with they will know you are lying.

9. Thanks to Whit I know now which beers I prefer to drink….

10. There are some pretty amazing teachers across the state…thank God most of them were put in my group to put up with me!!

Well….there’s my ah.hah moments….yea…..it’s been a LOOOONGG summer….