American Physical Society

Week 6: Filled with Colors

Sunday, July 10, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week started with a bang of colors. Monday was the 4th of July, America’s Independence Day. In the morning we went around Washington monument to watch the parade. Then we went for a quick lunch at Duke’s. Later around 6-6:30 we left GWU for the Washington monument one more time.

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Week 6: Pupusas and continued work

Friday, July 8, 2022

Lucy Corthell

 

The end of this internship is looming too close for comfort. This week besides continuing what I have been working on, I have been working on the intro to my final project and planning out a schedule for how to get everything done. 

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Week 5: Food&Drink-Crawling

Sunday, July 3, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week started with a beautiful potluck evening on Tuesday. I made chicken chili (sweet-chili). There were different foods from each room. I am never used to trying new foods but this time it felt right. All the foods were delicious. Enjoyed every single food. 

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Week 5: Halfway

Friday, July 1, 2022

Lucy Corthell

Happy July! This week seemed to go by very quickly and I am realizing how short summer and this internship really is. 

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Week 4: A great week featuring an Orchestra Concert and Astronomy on the Mall!

Monday, June 27, 2022

Lucy Corthell

This past Saturday we went to the most spectacular orchestra concert held by the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI+F) at the University of Maryland.

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Week 4: Play and Learn

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

Even though Monday was Juneteenth, I still had a meeting with my professor for my directed-reading. We both chose an article to read about which will be helping me with the project I am doing for this internship. 

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Week 3: Filled with Music

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week, at my work, we discussed our project idea with the web development team, and they picked up some issue so we might not be able to finish our automated project for this fall. But we are still listing out ideas and going through the issues to find solutions.

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Lucy Corthell, the Diversity Education and Statistics Intern at APS

Week 3: A favorite thing about the internship so far

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Lucy Corthell

One of my favorite parts of being an intern is reading the Education Diversity and Inclusion articles that my mentor suggests to me. Some of them are more dense and all of them are very engaging. Work can sometimes feel like a good class.

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Week 2: NATS!!

Sunday, June 12, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

From this week, my work started as well as my 6 weeks summer classes, anthropology and psychology. I still need to fulfil some general education requirement, so I decided to take those this summer online.

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Week 2: First full week

Friday, June 10, 2022

Lucy Corthell

The first full week at work went by fast. It’s only the second week and I feel like I’m getting into the swing of things: I have a grip on my project at work and I have begun to explore activities, museums, concerts and such in DC. 

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