Many of the scientists in my division described my first week as a fire hose to the mouth as they continued to throw new information at me before I had a chance to digest what I had learned five minutes before.<\/p>\n
The analogy is very true. I would learn some important Linux, or, R command and write it down, and John Ogren would already have entered four more before I had recorded the first. He always reassured me, “don’t worry you can just enter ‘h'” (‘h’ will give you a history of all your commands in a terminal so you can remember long, meticulous commands). Despite having such a helpful function, it does not discriminate from failed commands, so I often end up in a cycle of commands which did retrieve the desired output. Failed commands seems to be the path to a zenith of a working script, and four weeks ago I may have not put the effort in had it not been for the help and successes due to my mentors the first several weeks.<\/p>\n
As seemingly impossible the tasks of programming and completing a project in the 9-week time frame were 4 weeks ago, the challenge seems surmountable now. With 3 weeks to go I am excited to have something even more tangible and helpful for the aerosols division to use in the future.<\/p>\n
-Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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