Presenting My Capstone and Shopping for Junk!

My graduation is only fifteen days away now! I'm only 3 papers, 2 presentations, 2 lab reports, and 2 final exams from being completely done with college. I'm so thrilled to be finishing this chapter in my life and starting another, but I'll write more about that in a couple weeks. :)

Last week all the chemistry seniors, including myself, presented our capstones. All of the bachelor of science students must present research that they completed during their time at PLU. My presentation covered the work I completed on nanocrystals this year. Here is my research mentor introducing me to the audience:



Then they dimmed the lights and it was time for me to start. I was so nervous!


It went really well! I was so relieved! Here is the group of students I presented with.... Jonah, me, Erik, and Sam. We're clearly all happy to be so close to graduation!

I presented right after my good friend, Jonah.

Here is the whole group and our professors. I think we're the second largest class of chemistry students to graduate in the history of PLU!

Okay, now for the fun second half of my post. Yesterday I went with Meagan to the junk salvation show! I didn't purchase anything yesterday, we just had fun looking at all of the cool things and enjoying the flea market atmosphere. Today I went back and ended up getting two items that caught my eye.

The first item is this old string bean crate from Oregon. I love the character of old crates, I had a difficult time choosing which one I liked the most! Here is the side of my crate:

I'm going to be using it to store Michael's small record collection. I can't wait to get the rest of his records out of storage and place them in their new home!

I really love the second item I bought. And unlike the crate, it wasn't something I was planning on getting, but I fell in love with it! When the seller accepted my offer of $15 for this mirror, I just had to get it. Can't wait to hang it up in our new place this summer!