Pintern Blogs

The second week of my internship here at LASP was super cool, I started getting into the flow of working and got tons done. I started the week finishing a script-parsing project that was to get warmed up coding with python. The project was is...

Welcome to my final blog post from this wonderful internship! I’ve spent the last month and a half doing some of the most exciting work ever, and it was incredibly formative, inspiring, and invigorating. I suppose I will just dive right into the events of...

It is astounding how the past six weeks have flown past. My work during the final week consisted mainly of observing the communications board of a different satellite, CU-E3, going through troubleshooting because it wasn’t cooperating with the radio correctly. The process involved a mixer...

My last week at the museum was bittersweet. It was wonderful working with Erica Jensen and getting to see what a semi-corporate workplace is like. Then, reflecting on all the things I learned, I spent time in almost every facet of the museum. Every department...

Hello again!  Welcome to my second and last Pinhead blog.  As I stated in my earlier blog, I was only with Rover for 2 weeks, but in that amount of time I learned an immense amount.  Since rover works in 2 week sprints, I got...

This week was a very exciting one for the lab. While my project was extended to more videos, tests were being conducted on a monkey named eggo. This paticular experiment invoked touch and it was the 2nd that neurological analysis of two different sections of...

Welcome to week six of my Pinhead Internship blog! This week was spent preparing for, and shooting one of two upcoming projects that Digital Domain will be working on. As well as learning more about the technical side of preparing for these shoots, I learned...

My second and final week as an intern for the NRCS, Natural Resource Conservation Service, went by all too quickly. While the air quality in Davis was not ideal, about the equivalent of chain smoking cigars while standing outside, I had a wonderful, worthwhile week....

This was my final week here in Long Beach and it flew by. In the lab, I continued to help an undergraduate with her jaws project. The shark lab received approximately 6,000 jaws that were confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife. We have been working...

I cannot believe this was my last week in the lab and I am sad to see it all come to an end. This week we primarily focused on making our posters to present on our last day. We were to make three posters per...

Week five had a major success, but we won’t actually be able to utilize the success because all of our equipment is still gone. Hydra now has no more errors and continues to run its commands and scripts without error. The script themselves were where...