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August 9th, 2017: Day 25

Today was Joe's first day back since last Monday. The morning meeting was pretty standard, everyone talked about how their project/presentation is coming along. After that Paige and I made some critiques to our presentation. Our current dilemma is that we want to use an overlay image of the three main types of green while Dave wants us to use an inverse color images of the entire map, still using green.  We tried to set up our presentation in the auditorium but it didn't work the first time we tried. We spent the better half of the morning working on new data Dave had given us a few days before. I'm not 100% sure about what any of it is but it's kind of cool. We did a run through of our presentation before lunch and we were under 11 minutes so that's good and also kind of bad. We just need to explain things more. At about 1 Paige and I had a video call with Robert/Bob, the guy who gave us all the questions for the Selden Map. It was really Dave and Di talking and us quietly sitting in the background but it was a good call. I think for the rest of the day we're just going to focus on the presentation. I sounded really nervous during the practice one today so I need to work on that. There's only five work days until the final presentations so I have some time to fix it. I'm ready to go home but I'm also sad to leave Rochester. It's conflicting but I don't have a choice but to leave so I'm going to try and make the most of this next week.

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