Intern Blog Postings

Week 7: Happy Birthday Alexandria, VA

Friday, July 26, 2013

Nicole Quist

Friday night, I came home and crashed hard. It had been an exhausting week and I really needed the down time.

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Week 8: Almost There!

Friday, July 26, 2013

Alexandra Day

This week I made a lot of progress at work and I’m excited to see how my project concludes in the next week or so. I’m working closely with the scientist who will be continuing my project after I leave, and it’s been a great experience.

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Week 8: Time Waits for No Man

Friday, July 26, 2013

Darren McKinnon

The work that I have done this summer has been a bit erratic. I have worked with a number of different approaches to studying Eta Carinae, including principal component analysis, three-dimensional hydrodynamic modeling, and observational analysis. I have thoroughly enjoyed each one.

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Week 8: Week of the Regnant Solemnity

Friday, July 26, 2013

Caleb Heath

There is a meditative quality unique to mechanical labor. The fingers move and the mind goes away; when it returns, it finds the products of the body strewn all about it. Time disappears, and then only the creation remains.

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Week 7

Friday, July 26, 2013

Dayton Syme

This week has certainly been the best by far. By Thursday I had completed the remaining talking points that Camsie wanted.

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Week 5: Making Progress (despite the heat wave!)

Friday, July 19, 2013

Fiona Muir

Everything’s started to come together at work this week as we began to create resources and lesson plans about women in physics, based around all the information we’ve been researching over the last month.

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Week 7: Slow week, fast week

Friday, July 19, 2013

Jose "Ro" Avila

The landscapes one can see on the trip to Charlottesville, Virginia are beautiful. There are a lot of fields, crops, and little valleys. Even though the bus left from Union Station in DC one hour late, I really enjoyed the trip and the view.

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Week 7: HPU, Physicists, & NIST

Friday, July 19, 2013

Nikki Sanford

This was definitely one of the most eventful weeks of the summer!

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Week 6: Project Progress and Goddard Tour

Friday, July 19, 2013

Alec Lindman

This week we held the NASA Goddard tour for the other SPS interns, and I made major progress on my project. Early in the week I decided to replace the hodgepodge of bits from the parts-without-a-home cabinet that had been simulating the central component of my model with a proper part.

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Week 7: Museums Galore

Friday, July 19, 2013

Jamie Garrett

Time is just flying by here in DC. Last weekend my friends flew up from Georgia and we went to a few museums on Saturday. We started off at the Holocaust museum, then journeyed to the Air and Space Museum, next walking to the National History Museum, and finally the American History Museum.

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