Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Analyzing mixtures of organic compounds Obtaining supplies from chemical supply room into a diminutive test tube instead of only one. And woe to the one who makes a wee slip involving the algebra of a calculus problem! Fire burn. Ask any of us the implications of fire and well show you our hands . , , blistered from close contact with a piece of hot glass, scalded by freshly boiled nitric acid, seared by a devilish wing-tip burner. Cauldron bubble. Endless hours of waiting for an Or- ganic cauldron to bubble and reflex. And the grief and dismay as a “Qual” precipitable which “must not be over- looked” bubbles merrily away! The friction from all this witches’ brew is released in the Eastman Lounge, where we mutter and sputter about “Quals” and “Quants” at kings and queens. Yet underneath all our finagling, card-playing, and Bob-and-Ray type dialogues are serious, enthusiastic in- dividuals who woudn’t trade their crucibles for any card. Just ask any chemist! Draining a fractional still Chemical Analysts at Work Twenty-one

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IRENE FAWLTSH The school year starts off with the usual hub-bub and commotion. The happy-go-lucky electrical freshmen enter with the feeling of “Boy am I going to have fun! They soon change their ideas. Then come the Juniors who wish they were Seniors, and finally the Seniors who are about to start out cm their own to make or break a future.” It takes the first two weeks for everyone to get accustomed to the stiff wooden seats, the hard slate stairs, which room for which class, and, of course, the instructors. Tile first semester drags thru with your wondering if the money will hold out until the next work block and wishing you were back at work. Then, before you know it, comes the big night before mid-terms and you spend the night at home cramming. You go to bed with visions of waves on an oscilloscope dancing in front of you and wake up swearing not to forget the “3” in the three phase systems. You hurriedly grab a quick breakfast and hurry over to Room 106 for your test. You no sooner get started than you feel hungry and wish you had gotten up earlier so you could have had a better breakfast. Next you come to the toughest problem you've ever seen (actually it is a homework problem), and you gaze out the window hoping to find the answer on the door of one of the pass- ing ears. The instructor notices you're having trouble and comes over to try and analyze the difficulty. With a snicker and a statement somewhat like, You shouldn't go down to Jake’s so often,” he lets you in on the fact that it was on your homework. Now, cursing yourself for not doing the homework, you get still inadder and go on to the next problem. Finally, having finished the entire exam, you drag your- self out of the room and down to the lounge. Here you become thoroughly disgusted and blame the little fresh- men for having to take only a simple trig test which looks WILLIAM AMBUSK AUSTIN FRUSANCE EARL MARKER KENNETH K1MPTQX CHARLES PIOTRASCHKE CLARENCE ITITES T went y-three