first thing we did is got all dressed up to go onto the line where they make contacts:a disposable white lab coat, a hair net, safety glasses, and ear plugs were required the articles of clothing. When we went in, we got to see the automated process of making the contacts. It was surprising that the huge robotic arms could handle the delicate contacts. Even the inspection of the contacts was fully automated.( however, our tour guide did say that contacts are still manually inspected by "the women." He then changed the subject of the sentence to "people." He had to be politically correct, of course...)So from the line, we went to some other labs and got to see some cameras and lights that are used to read bar codes and such. Alex and AJ"s eyes were the guinea pigs for two of the instruments. The machines shined light into their eyes and made a topographic map of the shape of their corneas.
So then we left Bausch and Lomb and headed back to Henrietta. We went to Amiel's which is supposedly "Rochester's First Sub Shoppe." My sub was really good and the cookie was delicious. Then, of course, back to RIT we went.
We met Jenn at the NMR so she could teach both of us how to do T1 measurements. There is a list of commands and buttons that have to be entered into the computer in order to get accurate data. So after about 2 hours (each trial takes approximately 12 minutes) Nicole and I both had it down pretty well. We signed up for NMR time tomorrow, so Nicole and I will run the NMR for the first times by ourselves!!! Yay! :)
