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July 26th, 2017: Day 15

  Today's morning meeting was exciting, truly exhilarating. I have so much to report. Anjana told the group about what she is doing in her lab and why she requires charcoal. Nate told us a little bit about what he's doing in the kLab. He said he'll bring in his laptop on Friday to show the group some of his code and images. Paige and I were asked what The Jubilee's Palimpsest is, our latest project but we never received a concrete answer on that so we'll ask around. After the staff meeting, we went to help Titus and Aditi gather more information for their project. We went to the athletic complex and the ice rink with Peter and Ashley while tracking each others eye movement. The only thing I know about the experiment is that we were going to unfamiliar places. Pretty riveting stuff, I'd have to say.
  Today I mainly made image cubes and got a few results that I'll post later. My computer has been acting up lately and it's getting really frustrating. It's been freezing or loading results too slowly so it takes me a long time to get things done. After lunch Titus came and told me that he needed me to redo some of the testing I did last Friday. I was pushed around the building in a chair, then a cart, about 6 or 7 times. I walked a few of them as well but the pushing was much more fun. None of the data was saved so I'm being summoned another day to redo everything again. I just want it to be over so Titus and Aditi can finally tell me why I'm being asked to do this, if they told me before the data was collected then I would be biased and the results would become invalid. I really want to know.
For the rest of the day I've been awaiting Roger to ask him some questions. I've been struggling a little bit but it's getting somewhat better. Tomorrow is the field trip so I won't improve my skills by much but Friday I'll be back at it. I think this is my longest blog post.. Possibly because I decided to divide it into paragraphs today or simply because I'm adding filler words such as "decided to" or "simply".
The image above is the fluorescence of one of the images we were given, using bands 9,5,2
This image is a PCI result using bands 1,2,3

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