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July 31st, 2017: Day 18

Today was Joe's only day at work this week, Matt is taking over the morning meetings starting tomorrow. We talked about the outlines and Joe asked us to look over everyone's to get an idea of what theirs is so we don't try to critique it the first time we look at it. I went to the PhD Dissertation Defense at 10 today. The topic was the evolution of massive black hole binaries in rotating stellar nuclei and it implications for gravitational wave detection. Good thing there was a paper in the reading room stating the exact topic or else I definitely would not have remembered much more than "massive black hole" and "gravitational wave detection". The defense was interesting but really confusing and not to mention complex. I can't say that I understood much of it but I did enjoy it and I'm glad I went. I've been making image cubes for Roger all day. I also got a few PCI results and a few Overlay results that I'll add in later. I forgot to mention that Dave is back! I almost forgot what his striped country club shirts looked like. Since Paige isn't here until Wednesday I haven't decided what I'm doing for the remaining two weeks. I need to consult with her but I guess I'll have to wait two days. Today hasn't been excessively exciting but that's not a bad thing. I am officially done helping out Aditi and Titus. The experiment I did today saved and we are good to go. They still won't tell me why I did this, which bothers me, but it's not a big deal. I have a file floating in the corner of my screen, even when I exit Envi and my files...It finally went away but it was there for a little while. I made 10 image cubes today, I feel like that's a lot to make. It took me almost eight hours, so yeah it's alot.
                                                                                                            
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