One extremely dark, stormy morning I was awaken by a loud crashing noise outside. It was way earlier than I had to actually be up and getting ready. I could already tell that day was going to be a long long day!
"RIIIIIIIIING! RIIIIING! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNG!!"
All I could think was stupid alarm, and what time is it?! The time read 8:15. Ugh I thought to myself. Time to get ready for school. Ah ten more minutes won't hurt. Snooze button?....Yeeaaah.
No time to shower now! It was 9:25 when I woke myself up because my alarm didn't!! I'm rushing around the house trying to look as decent as possible, gathering everything I could at once so I would make it to class on time.
9:51, I'm pulling up to the school in a panic. Running like a mad man while the bell is obnoxiously reminding me to run faster or I'm going to be late. I get to class late of course because I drop all of my books in the hall. My teacher doesn't want to listen to my "excuses" so I just bit my tongue and listened to the lecture. We were learning about famous chemists. My teacher immediately let us know that we had to do a report on one famous chemist of our choice. That added more stress to my horrible day.
I picked Soren Sorenson. I learned a lot about him throughout our discussion. He was famous for inventing the pH Scale. The pH Scale is used alot in science today. Basically its a measure of how acidic something is. Like in swimming pools, you need to keep the water at a certain pH level. The chlorine does too. It's used more in chemistry than anywhere else because the pH balance can affect chemical reactions.
I've always heard people talk about the pH Scale but I never knew, or cared to know about it. Like on CSI. They always talk about it. And now that I know what it's used for and how affective it is in the world today, I'm glad I came to Chemistry class. I enjoyed learning about Soren Sorenson and his invention.
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