We got on the bus to Philadelphia at 7:30am this morning on our trip to the ASTM International Headquarters, a national standards organization. We had a really great meeting about the way standards are established in the US and the role they play in industry, and had a great presentation from a guy a Oak Ridge National Lab about nuclear standards and one about alternative energies.
Then we did some touristing at Independence Hall and the Liberty
Bell. They had really interesting exhibits about the "road to liberty" from the original Declaration of Independence to civil rights and women's suffrage. They also had pictures of Chief Sitting Bull and the Dalai Lhama in front of the Liberty Bell. It made me think about how liberty is really a journey, or a trial, not a destination. It is not something that can be achieved, but something that must be fostered and encouraged and grown. I also enjoyed that the chairs in the signing roo
m are just like the desk chair I picked out from that old hardware store on Brooklyn with my mom. At about 4pm, we headed home only to hit horrible traffic about 2 hours in, so the whole trip would take 4 1/2 hours before we finally got back to the dorm. Part of that was because there was a horrible metro crash on the red line, if you haven't heard. Which is doubly unfortunate because I am supposed to take the red line towards the direction of the crash tomorrow morning to get to a Fuel Cycle Information Exchange conference at the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission tomorrow. Hmmmm... I'll figure it out in the morning. Good night! 
Then we did some touristing at Independence Hall and the Liberty
Bell. They had really interesting exhibits about the "road to liberty" from the original Declaration of Independence to civil rights and women's suffrage. They also had pictures of Chief Sitting Bull and the Dalai Lhama in front of the Liberty Bell. It made me think about how liberty is really a journey, or a trial, not a destination. It is not something that can be achieved, but something that must be fostered and encouraged and grown. I also enjoyed that the chairs in the signing roo
m are just like the desk chair I picked out from that old hardware store on Brooklyn with my mom. At about 4pm, we headed home only to hit horrible traffic about 2 hours in, so the whole trip would take 4 1/2 hours before we finally got back to the dorm. Part of that was because there was a horrible metro crash on the red line, if you haven't heard. Which is doubly unfortunate because I am supposed to take the red line towards the direction of the crash tomorrow morning to get to a Fuel Cycle Information Exchange conference at the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission tomorrow. Hmmmm... I'll figure it out in the morning. Good night! 
1 comment:
Great pictures and commentary on liberty and the bell.
The founders had lots of debates about what should be in -- and not in -- the Declaration -- how great that your chair matches!
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