1. climbing rickety ladders to zip tie ropes to the ceiling is SO MUCH FUN.
2. when driving to Marsh, the best mode of transportation is a huge white ghetto van that screams, "I steal children."
3. pumpkin puree looks best when it is covering your arms, legs, shoes, and the front of your labcoat.
4. when alkaline cleaner gets on your skin, it feels funny, don't try this at home kids!
5. there are copy machines in this world that can take 6 double sided pieces of paper and copy them, collate them, and staple them together in packets 50 times in under 10 minutes. such one exists on the second floor of Food Science.
6. Dr. Philip Nelson, the demi god of the food science world, and the guy who made Purdue Food Science famous, has a good handshake.
7. it's not sitting around doing nothing, it's being "on call."
8. no matter how many times you clean the floor of the pilot plant, it will get dirty approximately 7.94 seconds later.
9. Jimmy John's isn't as "freaky fast" when you order 11 sandwiches, 11 bags of chips, 4 drinks, and 2 pickles all in one phone call.
10. if you want your Clean In Place process to work properly, you have to remember to turn the motor on.
11. oftentimes fancy packaging equipment fails to come with the proper pieces or a manual. in these circumstances you do what every good scientist does, make things up.
12. if it takes a little too long to get your samples during a sensory test, the people on the other side of the doors are probably trying to guess movie titles based off of snippets of the movie poster. no big deal, they will get to you when they finally notice the light.
13. when a guy tells you to grab a wrench, never ask what that is. (disclaimer, this was a co-worker, not me)
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