^ end view of fiber

7/24/2007 11:27:33 AM

bttt, i'm feelin lucky

10/17/2007 9:42:52 PM

what do you think about Dr. Byrd?

10/17/2007 9:44:17 PM

hes great, we've had some ballin parties at his house



[Edited on October 17, 2007 at 9:46 PM. Reason : i should mention, the 3rd year senior expert PSE, didnt know we had another on here]

10/17/2007 9:45:18 PM

I got a buddy in PSE. He says that companies that hold info sessions hand out vast quantities of paper prizes or is that just lies to get me to envy him?

10/17/2007 9:49:47 PM

ahaha yea he's a great guy. on our PSE Freshman Retreat he made us watch Rocky Horror Show and he was the only guy laughin at the movie. meanwhile i was laughin at how much fun he was having.

he also showed us this movie and i laughed more than he did:

http://www.zippyvideos.com/6675345254738236/billys_balloon/

10/17/2007 9:51:12 PM

he is an interesting character, until you get to your 4-5th year and start hanging out with the profs more, you will never know the crazy shit that goes down

10/17/2007 9:53:36 PM

ahaha i can't wait.

you go on that trip to china?

10/17/2007 9:54:28 PM

yeah, been catching senior trips, banquets, and pig pickins for a few years now

[Edited on October 17, 2007 at 9:57 PM. Reason : BING PIJIU ftmfw]

10/17/2007 9:56:19 PM

which companies have you worked for, and which one did you like best/why?

10/17/2007 10:01:00 PM

you live out near Lake Wheeler /Tryon area? I see that truck often

10/17/2007 10:01:27 PM

^^ i won't comment on the internetz

^ yep, pedestrians and young children run for their lives when i'm rollin through

10/17/2007 10:03:34 PM

yea that's fair

10/17/2007 10:05:24 PM

what makes toilet paper clump so well when it gets wet

10/22/2007 9:35:03 PM

glossy paper is awesome

make me some

10/22/2007 9:48:01 PM

^^ mostly unrefined fiber, has a low RBA (relative bonded area) and no sizing and low amount of rosin for wet strength, so in a nutshell it repulps and reforms the hydrogen bonds easily, its basically very thin fluff or market pulp

^ that can be any number of things, LWC or light weight coated like magazines is basically cheap newsprint with a latex "paint" coating that contains titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate, opaques, or fine printing grades are high quality coated free sheet with a clear surface sizing of natural starch, or any number of polymers, such as LDPE

10/22/2007 10:37:42 PM

whats your favorite color of paper?

10/22/2007 10:39:01 PM

i like the stuff on the cover of books that is coarse but has glossy areas over the pictures that make it smooth

every paper should be like this

10/22/2007 10:43:14 PM

Is chewing on printer, notebook, or magazine paper hazardous to your health?

10/22/2007 10:45:05 PM

^^^ green, with dead peoples pictures on it

^ not particularly, calcium carbonate is in tums, titanium dioxide is in damn near everything including toothpaste and is inert, and most of the internal size used is potato starch, not to say there isnt some very small amounts of caustic, alum, biocides, etc. but not enough to do any harm

[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 10:56 PM. Reason : ^ magazine paper is up to 60% fillers, printing and writing grades are 0 to 20%]

10/22/2007 10:54:51 PM

whew

You don't happen to know about the ink do you?

[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 11:00 PM. Reason : ]

10/22/2007 11:00:34 PM

is it really true that you can't fold a piece of paper, regardless of size, more than 9 times?

10/22/2007 11:06:22 PM

offset printing ink is some pretty nasty stuff, same with flexo and litho, but as far as the little blue lines, thats the same ink that colors your popsicles and baja blast mountain dew, aqueos based inkjet ink, and toner is also fairly benign in small amounts


i also forgot to mention, even though cellulose has the identical chemical formula as glucose,the different configuration makes it have no nutrutional value whatsoever, the body cannot break it down, it has an extra bond at the B-O-4 spot on the chain in the chair conformation

[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 11:09 PM. Reason : ^ depends on the grade, i have never been able to do it with anything over 24lb/1000ft^2]

10/22/2007 11:07:32 PM

bttmft

11/9/2007 1:54:45 PM

As a graduate of the PSE (was PPT when I graduated in 02, but I got to be part of the shitty transition to engineering accreditation) and CHE, I support this thread.

69 knows his stuff pretty well. I work in a recycled paper mill now.

11/9/2007 2:46:22 PM

bttt

8/25/2008 4:39:36 PM

Where'd you intern over the summer? I don't think I saw that.. I'm regular CHE and I got to go to Chicago for the summer working for an oil refinery design company, I didn't have to deal with sulfur smells or anything of the like, though from what I hear from the PSEs you become used to the smell after a short while.

8/25/2008 6:15:53 PM

Quote :

"and even cow shit"

i think this would bring back the novelty of throwing paper at people

8/25/2008 7:00:20 PM

^^ i worked with Sonoco, but there are usually 20-30 companies interviewing for interns and co-ops in our department, before i graduated, the juniors/seniors were making $20/hr+

8/25/2008 7:54:24 PM

I made 17 an hour plus free apartment which was 80 dollars a day. So it rounded out to being about 27-29 dollars an hour which was amazing. I love CHE for that reason, the end, but the during is not much fun.

8/25/2008 10:26:18 PM

FREE 69

8/25/2008 10:36:50 PM

$80 a day? were you living in an apartment or a hotel suite?

8/26/2008 8:30:15 AM