LAST WEEK!

So, I'll sum up this week (tuesday-friday):

Tuesday and Wednesday were days devoted to working on our presentation. On wednesday, we practiced for Jake and he gave us some good feedback.

Thursday we spent the day practicing at UR with the interns over there. I think it was helpful but it took just soooo long!

Friday: PRESENTATION TIME!! It was a smashing success! Astronomy went so good! We actually seemed fairly competent in what we were presenting. After the presentation we went out to lunch (on Jake =]). I can't believe this summer is finally over, its been long but I must say that I wouldnt have done it any other way! And whats better is that I'm working for Jake during the year, except I'll be getting credit instead of money which is basically the same thing b/c college will leave me broke!

Day 30

Soccer has officially started, so this week will be busier than ever. I have tryouts all week from 8-10 and then 11:30-1:30. So for monday-wednesday I'll be at RIT from 2-6 or maybe 7 if i feel up to it.

Today, for when I was here, I worked on finding xray wavelengths. I've got almost all of them done so hopefully It'll be done tomorrow. Today there was also a thing for girl scouts in the lobby. Basically a bunch of organizations came in trying to get girls into science/math/technology. Bob thought we should have a look around so me and nicole ventured off. It was actually really cool. There was a lot of stuff on fuel cells, they even had a fuel cell SUV. General Motors has a branch in HF-L where they do all there fuel cell research. I'd really love to see fuel celled cars out on the road with in the next 5 years. They'd make such a difference for the environment. I'd go through all the positives, but I need to get back to work!


basma

Days 29+30

Thursday was spent working on the poster, of course. Chris O'Dea gave me some helpful feedback so I did some editing on my poster. Jake was pretty much gone the whole day so I didn't get to ask him anything.

Friday: we started to plan out our presentation. Its going to be interesting...Somehow we're going to fit 4 mini presentations into 1 big presentation. Oh dear. Today I also started to find the xray wavelengths using planks constant. I really hope i finish my plots by wednesday. I think Jake gets mad when i ask Bryan for help with plotting. I don't know why, its not like i was born with plotting capabilities...I guess thats what IDL help is for. Team building today is going to be snowball fight by the ice rink. Its been a while since we've team built so, I'm semi-excited.

Well one more week left! Next week is going to be busy, between soccer, plotting, making our presentation (I'm missing the practice session at UR..crap). Its going to be hectic and I'll have to put it in overdrive to finish everything!


weekend time :)

Basma

Day 29

Today we went on a field trip to Optimax. They're an optical manufacturing company in Ontario. They gave us free stuff, and like all interns, free stuff is great. They gave us some sick shades, a little glass lense, and a cozy for drinks..We had lunch at Amiels...Must say that i wasn't too impressed with my chicken parm sub but now I know never to order that again.

When I got back to CIS, Bryan and I worked on more plotting. We made a code! I'll be able to put in my flux/wavelength data and it'll plot my graph for me.



meeting time!

basma

p.s. I took another look at my poster and I'm definitely going to have to go back and do some major editing..

Day 27

Today went surprisingly fast..Not exactly sure how that managed to happen, but all of sudden it was 4:30. Maybe it was due to my astounding amount of productivity! I completed my poster. Its not bad, not entirely satisfied but it'll suffice for now. Bryan and I started the plotting process. It was long, tedious, and frustrating. Sure enough with in a half an hour we decided it'd be best to talk to Jake for some clarification. I think we have a pretty good idea for how to do it now, so tomorrow, after we get back from the field trip, I will devote my day to plots, plots, and more plots.





bananas in pajamas forever,
basma

Day 26

So today's focus was mainly on my poster. I pretty much have it all done with some exceptions. Besides making it look pretty, I need to type up the section on the processes behind my work and how I did it all. I'm using publisher to make my poster and its pretty easy to use. Joe said that Illustrator would be better, but we don't have it downloaded on the tablets so publisher it is. The rough draft is due wednesday, so tuesday will be basically me finishing it up. Presentations are due by next wednesday, thats really what I'm worried about. I think that Kevin, Tom, and Nicole are doing their's together cause they mainly did similar research but, of course, I was the oddball doing different research. So, it looks like I'm flying solo for this one.

In other news, I passed my road test! yay!! It was probably the best feeling..ever. Now, if I only had a car.

Day 25

So, today was the undergrad symposium. Essentially the ugrads, who stayed at RIT for the summer doing research, presented either a poster or presentation on all the work they've completed thus far. Brad, Bryan, and Greg(who wasn't present) presented on starformation and Karla presented on the FRI/FRII galaxies. They all did a great job and I'm super glad that I never have to answer a question from Dr. Robinson, or any other British Astro-physicists. We were there pretty much all day. When we eventually returned back to CIS, I did some more flux crap and worked on my poster -- they're kinda due by next wednesday so I'll be cramming that in next week..



TGIF!



basma