Welcome to week four of my internship blog! Overall, this was a slower week at Digital Domain, but things are about to get pretty crazy for the next few weeks as we begin a series of lengthy, comprehensive shoots! Nonetheless, I learned a great deal...
My first day was spent touring the hospital with Dr. Cohen and Alexis. We visited the trauma center, SICU (surgery intensive care unit), and surgery clinic. I spent the afternoon meeting with other members of the research team and talking to Alexis. Alexis took me...
During this week at UCSD we continued our research and tested all of our hypothesis from the previous week! The first hypothesis that I tested was if the standard deviation of the distance between the center of mass of the ligand and the center of...
Holy cow, it is here already. This was the last week of my internship at LASP; finally, I have time to sit and write my blog. This week at LASP, we finally got ready to ship MinXSS-2 off for its rapidly approaching launch. For the week, we...
This was my fourth week here in California. This week I have been working on putting together a slideshow presentation for a SCUBA tour agency, Horizon Charters, out of San Diego. One of the computer science majors at the university designed a real-time acoustic receiver...
I cannot believe I am done already and writing my last one of these! This has been the best experience of my life and I am very grateful of everyone that made it possible. With that said, I had a very exciting week at the...
Week three was filled with progress and success! We actually managed to get Hydra working on our computers, and that included getting it to work on Aidan's Mac, which we thought would be impossible. However, separate programs allowed us to run Hydra for Aidan. Unfortunately,...
This week we spent our time editing the code to get rid of the error messages for the labeling so the new code would correspond with the new labels. In coding, a simple capital letter can screw up your whole program. Our HK (HouseKeeping) packet...
We started preparing a solution of 10% phosphoric acid and 90% Deionized water. After that we used this solution to eliminate the aluminum dioxide from the back side of the sample to apply electric current there. The reason why we put the aluminum dioxide is because...
My last week in Salt Lake City was pretty mellow as we were primarily just wrapping up all of our projects. Monday was centered around working on the video. [caption id="attachment_10035" align="alignleft" width="247"] The view from the roof[/caption] We went up to the roof of the Student Union...
This week I continued interviewing heads of each department with Ms. Abbie Edens, then Ms. Erin Clancey. The one I'd particularly like to tell you about was Ms. Clancey's. She is head of collections which encompasses restoration of macro-artifacts (think Sherman Tank), the forming of exhibits...
This week in lab, the fun had began as we started to do research for the lab. The first half of my internship, I had been learning the fundamentals and different analysis methods used to analyze proteins. Our task now was to find new methods...
My third week in the Change lab has been amazing, and I learned a lot! My week started off pretty standard. I finished extra data entry from last week and worked with the days FORCE participants. After learning that I passed my biosaftey training course I...
Our final week at the lab was rather slow, there wasn't much to do as the animals recovered from their surgeries. Unfortunately, the experiments with the new cohort of animals will start Monday, right after Ry and I leave. However, we still found things to...
Day 14: Our third week started off with a one of kind experience from Big Beard’s Adventure Tour company for a snorkeling day at Buck Island National Monument. The island was made a National Monument in 1961 by John F. Kennedy along with the...