Getting Ready for the Fall Semester

Today was the first Friday that we had to work since June. The university saves $200,000 in energy costs by closing on Fridays during the summer. I just made arrangements to teach my seminars in chemistry and chemical engineering during the first few weeks of the semester. I hope that the students will be attentive and learn something. It can be very frustrating when you see students playing with their cell phones and being non-attentive in a low tech way.