Thursday, June 14, 2018
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Whoo! The second week at NIST has been a lot of fun. I’ve been exploring my project more and I have really gotten into the groove of things. Everyday I wake at 5am and proceed to make a quick breakfast. It has varied from avocado toast, apples and Bananas or an Acai smoothie. Then I walk over to Dupont circle, which takes 20 minutes, and catch the redline to Shady grove. Then I hang around while I wait for the 6:45 NIST shuttle. I get to NIST at 7am and hit the gym right away. I will usually work out for about 45 minutes to an hour. Then I am usually at my desk enjoying my overnight oats and working on emails till about 9am. Then I get to the nitty gritty of my work, which has so far been familiarizing myself with transmission theory. My mentor handed me a graduate electrical engineering book and multiple papers to read. It has been a challenge trying to learn a new subject this quickly but I am surprised as to how fast things move.
The people at NIST are really cool. There are about 120 other summer interns that came through a different program and I have made some friends. I have to say the lunch special at NIST makes up for the long commute. After 2pm the food its 50% off!! It's a super great deal that also excuses you for a break at 2pm ;). Then I usually catch the last shuttle from NIST at 6:15 and arrive back to my apartment around 7:30pm.
So far this week has been busy. After work I’ve had to work on GRE prep, statement of purpose for grad school applications, SPS chapter report and also editing some of my colleagues statement of purpose. I can’t wait to sleep in on the weekend and make some pancakes. I also plan to check out the used bicycle sale this saturday at Dupont circle. It’ll come in handy if I can get a bike. It’ll allow me to stay that last hour at NIST.
Jesus Perez