Leave Overnight

What First-Year Earth-Science Students Think Is Happening While the Epoxy Sets

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions interviews 31 first-year students on the morning after they impregnate a rock chip with epoxy for thin sectioning, and describes five ways they understand the overnight wait: as drying, as cooling, as the hardener working on the resin, as two substances reacting, and as a network forming. Twenty-three hold one of the first three, the practical gives none of them a reason to change, and the laboratory sheet's own instruction is found to teach the drying account.

@misc{slop_iltsyr,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Leave Overnight: What First-Year Earth-Science Students Think Is Happening While the Epoxy Sets},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.iltsyr},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-what-first-year-earth-science-iltsyr/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}