Day 28

August 15, 2012 

I went to Chipotle for lunch today with Maddie, Olivia, Cassie, Kaila and Bethany, and it was DELICIOUS. I ate the most enormous burrito I have ever seen. All of the interns who helped Bethany yesterday with the kids got free lunch. It was pretty fun!!

I also finally got the code I have been working on to work, with the help of Davide, who is finally back. It only took three weeks....

Dr. Robinson also helped me with my presentation. He gave me some slides to look at, to help me get an idea of what I should focus on. He also gave me some pictures I can use in my presentation, which was really REALLY helpful.

Day 27

August 14, 2012

Today I worked on the powerpoint. Even more. I changed some slides to make sure that I wouldn't go over my time limit. I also went to Journal Club- still didn't really understand most of it, but I didn't really expect to so that's ok. I also talked to Dr. Robinson about my presentation and he's going to help me get a more solid idea of what background I'll need to give for the presentation. He also offered to check over my slides. Dmitry also offered his help, so I'll do a couple run throughs next week, after I get it into some sort of first draft. 

Day 25

August 10, 2012

I went to a couple of the undergraduate talks today, including Trent's. It was interesting to see what other research was going on. I didn't understand all of it, or even most of it, but I still think that I got the gist- LOTS of research is happening. I also think that I definitely want to major in astronomy/astrophysics for sure now.  In other news, I can't figure out why the radio contours aren't actually being plotted on the acquisition image, which is the main goal of my program, but I think I'll be able to figure it out on Monday.