Day 34

Today we practiced our presentations and I'm glad because now I'm more relaxed for tomorrow. I also looked up known double-doubles in the VLA archive to see if any matched the ones I found but they didn't, not a great note to end on, oh well.

Day 33

Today I looked up some things in my presentation so that I'll be able to explain them better on Friday and I looked for more images.

Day 32

Today we practiced our presentations for the insight lab group and mine was extremely short, but I've added some stuff and hopefully I'll be able to make it closer to ten minutes by Friday.

Day 31

This morning I had tennis practice so I came in late, then I finished my power point and helped Ashley put up the cube.

Day 30

It's the end of week 6 and I'm gonna repeat myself and say they've gone by EXTREMELY fast. I got a lot done on my powerpoint but I'm still looking for more images to put on. I tried to help Sean with his code but I wasn't too much help.

Day 29

Today I worked some more on my powerpoint and I attended the galaxy talk all most all of which went right over my head.

Day 28

I put a lot of info on the wiki page today and am embarrassed to say I need pencil, paper and a calculator to do simple subtraction but over all it was a productive day.

Day 27

Wow these numbers are getting high it doesn't seem like I've worked 27 days, the summer went by fast. Today I pulled information on the galaxies I'm looking at out of the vla archive.

Day 26

Today I talked to an IT guy who told me that since they're "short staffed" and because they're going to get rid of this computer when I'm done he won't bother installing powerpoint!?!?! If they're gonna get rid of the computer once I'm done there's absolutely NO good reason I can't be admin for it, the clock's been wrong since I set it up, but I can't change it, and it's just plain annoying. But I don't feel like pushing the point because I'm done in two weeks and I can use the computer lab when I have to.

Other than that I looked for further information on the double-doubles I found but I don't think I came up with anything useful.

Day 25

Friday was a lot of fun, we went to all the undergrads presentations and got (another) free lunch, although I didn't end up getting much work done.

Day 24

On Thursday I started on my powerpoint but only the text part because I don't have powerpoint on this computer.

Day 23

Last Wednesday was a picnic! For the undergrads really, but the interns were invited.

Day 21 and 22

Yesterday we visited the U of R laser lab where they're attempting to perfect a new power source based on fusion, among other things. Today I narrowed down all the galaxies I was looking at to about 15 and posted those pictures on the insight lab's wiki page.

Day 20

Last Friday we went to ITT and took a tour. It was really interesting but the idea of a "lifewalk" freaked me out a bit. We learned about how they make the optics for space telescopes and about a system for detecting gas emissions.