Pintern Blogs

Welcome back everyone,  This week has been shorter than last since we were given the 4th off. Monday was a rather short day since the lab was bustling with people, so we were sent home early. Tuesday seemed to pick up and was a much...

Hello everybody, this is Josh Ives. I just started my internship at Carnegie Mellon for Computational Biology. This first week of my internship was a very exciting one as I got started on my Pinternship. I began this week having only a basic understanding of...

Hello! The fifth week of my internship here on coconut island has gone by incredibly fast. Much of the work I have done this week has been similar to that of last week. We took the volume and mass of each of our coral fragments...

    I cant believe my second week here is already over. Time seems to have just vanished like nothing. I have done so many things, and each day feels like another adventure. I have continued to help out at the various museum activities such...

This week Caroline and I have been working independently, since Andrew is in Guatemala working on satellites. Caroline has been learning how to program and code her Arduino. I, on the other hand, have been watching tutorials on SOLIDWORKS to familiarize myself with the computer...

  This week Clara and I worked on our projects more, and learned the specifics of what we are going to be working on for the next four weeks. Because our mentor Andrew is currently in Guatemala, we’ve been watching tutorials and doing exercises specific...

Wow! The internship is already halfway done. I’ve been having such a great time here that time has really been flying by. This week, I worked on three projects: creating a data map, managing heat for the Picarro instruments on the roof, and creating an...

This week was awesome, even though I only worked a day and a half. Monday was super cool because the internship class and I were introduced to Qt and PyQt. These are both graphics libraries, meaning they make developing graphical applications super easy. This is...

Although this is my first blog I have been in Santa Barbara for about 10 days. I flew in on the 26th and started my first day (also the only day I’ve worked so far) at the REEF (Research Experience and Education Foundation) on the...

This week was a short, yet eventful at my internship: we only worked Monday through Wednesday because of the 4thof July. I was able to watch another SATco (Standardized assessment of trunk control) take place on a child with cerebral palsy, which involved them perform...