Hi Everybody! I’m Caroline Graham and am interning at Colorado University Boulder’s Aerospace Engineering program through the Pinhead Institute. The first week has been pretty awesome. Clara and I met our host family, Jean Coulter and Eben Clark, along with their two kids Shea and Quinn, last Sunday. They have been so helpful and welcoming to us, and we are very grateful that they were willing to host us for the first four weeks of our internship. The internship itself has been great too. The majority of our work so far has been helping our mentor Andrew set up the Cubesat lab, located in CU’s new Aerospace building on East Campus. We finished putting up the cabinets in the lab and were mostly moved in by Friday, so we are planning on beginning our projects on Monday. The project I chose to work on involves using a circuit board to test various chips that will be used on a satellite and I will know more about it by the time I write my next post.
Our life outside of the internship has been pretty cool as well. Each morning we bike to the lab (2.8 miles) and work until 4 or 5. Then we bike to Pearl Street (3.4 miles) and get tea from Ku Cha House of Tea, after which we bike back to the house trying very hard to avoid the 19th street hill (3.3 miles). We’ve tried a few interesting ways to avoid the hill on 19th street, but most of them result in us having to bike miles out of the way, or biking up and even bigger hill so we haven’t really found a great route yet.
All in all, it’s been a great week of learning new things and meeting amazing new people.
Bike distance to date: 57 mi
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