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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July 20th, 2017: Day 11

The morning meeting wasn't too bad today, we finished up the abstracts and had a good chat. Paige and I had the most eventful morning we've ever had, we got to go to all four floors and visit all of the labs trying to find people. We also talked to Ryan to let him know how disappointed we were with him but he's fine. We've been putting the final touches on the presentation and it looks pretty good. Peter, Ashley, and Tristan came up for lunch and we analyzed life's deepest mysteries like if Peter's shorts were shorter than mine, which they definitely were, and each others social media pages. It was a pretty good lunch. I've been doing a lot of reading today in the absence of work. Going back and forth between a dry book and a semi-dry presentation is absolutely exhilarating. Paige has been making a lot of small changes to the slides and I'm good with that, they aren't major and she's right to do most of them so I'm glad she sees some of these

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&

July 19th, 2017: Day 10

During the morning meeting today Joe attempted to look up my house of Google Maps but unfortunately, the car did not drive down my street. We did three more abstracts today and they were all pretty good. Paige and I will be the second one done tomorrow so we'll give it a final review later today. Dave isn't here today so we're on our own and doing extra things to add to the presentation. I just finished a slide that has 12 chips of the map all compared to the red pigment of the chrysanthemums in Japan. I'll add that in at the bottom after I finish this. Paige is working on comparing chips of the map to a blue pigment and using the island off Southwest Sumatra as reference. Yesterday she did the same thing using green pigments and put together a map and I'm attempting to do the same but there are far less red pigment on the map so the SAM image is usually white with a small amount of black or grey. I'll add that image in later too. I guess all we have left to do

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