Pintern Blogs

This fourth and final week of my internship has been even more exciting than all its precursors.  I am becoming very familiar with the terms, vocabulary, and ideas of these bright geologists I am working with. With every bit of experience  I get I feel like...

20 August, 2014 /

The last week of my internship has passed. I had an amazing time with all the people that worked on the MinXSS project with me and the entire experience was very eye opening for me. I'm not going to give the day by day account...

17 August, 2014 /

Wow. I cannot believe that my internship went by that fast. I was just having such a good time and learning so much I did not want to leave. It felt like I just got there, and with a flash I was going home. My last...

15 August, 2014 /

My time here is quickly coming to an end. Although six weeks seems like a very long time for me to be gone it is almost nothing in the scale of this project and honestly it astounds me. So many people have been working towards...

08 August, 2014 /

Hi there again! Week 5 was a busy one, which is why I'm writing this post on Thursday of Week 6. But don't worry, a lot will happen between now and Sunday, so my Week 6 post will be just as action-packed as this one...

08 August, 2014 /

I have gone through my second week now. A lot has changed within the the last seven days. I have been located in Reno Nevada. Gary was called to a meeting in Idaho so they had me go to Reno to help his asociate geologist,...

05 August, 2014 /

I was avoiding putting up this blog post because I didn't want to believe that week 5 was already over. The past six weeks flew by so quickly it is truly unbelievable. The last week was very calm and it is pretty obvious the summer is...

04 August, 2014 /

Wow. It's over! I've completed my Pinhead internship! It flew by so quickly. In the lab, we didn't really do any new protocols or anything. This week, we used the micro RNA that had been isolated last week to find out if micro RNA 335 was affected...

02 August, 2014 /