Well, I really am not the blogging type of person, I already have enough thoughts going on that I usually don’t care to write them out lol. Last week was a pretty good week, as I was finally able to see where my research project is going. My mentor was out of town for another… Read More
Last week was so fun that I forgot to post…. Oops. I spent the beginning of the week working mostly on my poster and presentation, as well as arguing with MatLab. I wish I could say that I won those arguments, but I think MatLab is totally beating me. Oh well. I did finally figure out… Read More
Only three weeks left of the program, and I’m finally feeling the crunch. Last week was almost entirely lab work, and the slow pace of that work is beginning to concern me. Setting up the equipment isn’t terribly difficult or time consuming, but each run can take up to 90 minutes and I’m doing three… Read More
Week six gave us lots of background to move progress along. In the first couple weeks of the internship I read a lot about thermal desorption techniques and at first it was confusing. It feels great when you research something about some sort of technique and then you go to carry it out and IT… Read More
This week I focused on working on my poster and PowerPoint presentation. I want to get these two projects done ahead of time, as I know I will have editing to do. On Wednesday we had CrowdMag Day, it went great! For the people that participated, they got to see how I used CrowdMag to… Read More
I have realized recently that, before starting this research experience, I often looked for videos or blogs that told me about a day in the life of a research scientist. I always wondered what the work-life balance was, how predictable the day to day schedule is and what exactly research entails. Today, I will be… Read More
This past week has been about trying to put it all together all of the previous code that I’ve written coming into play, along with data from our site (as opposed to data from previous sites, which I had been using), and code from my mentors. Well, when you try to put pieces together from… Read More
This week went by very fast! Full of fun with the other interns and interesting results upon completing tasks this week, I’d say this has been the best week yet. This week I have gotten much closer to receiving results. As such, I’ve started to put more effort into the poster board and have a… Read More
The start of week 6 was a good one! My suspicions regarding Friday’s results proved correct, but Katy and I worked out what the problems were in the process of getting total error values for each group of ground control points (GCPs). Tomorrow, I will redo everything from Friday… correctly this time 🙂 On the… Read More
Hey friends, I hope everyone had a great time celebrating the red, white and blue! The holiday made for a short and easy week, however, the research updates for week five aren’t as exciting as it has been. Besides trying to stay updated with the FIFA World Cup, I did still get some preparations finished.… Read More
