Intern Blog Postings

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Billy "Trey" Cole

7 weeks have passed, and that is truly hard to believe. Writing weekly blog updates has made me more aware about the passage of time, and how slippery it is. The main differentiatator of the weeks is the different speakers that we have the opportunity to listen to and interact with.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Abigail Ambrose

Week 6 is over, and the summer is moving too quickly. It has been one of those weeks that flew by and now I don’t even know what I’m doing.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Billy "Trey" Cole

As week 6 is behind us, I am thinking about how much more I could have accomplished by this time if I were there in person. Considering that the research is mostly hands on experimental work, I imagine it would be much more.

Monday, July 13, 2020

Benjamin Petkie

And so, the Podcast begins, the first official episode was recorded Friday night and I will be posting it sometime next week. I’m very happy with how much I learned from the setting up the Podcast and look forward to making every episode better than the last.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Anna Murphree

[All views are my own.]

Samantha Creech

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Samantha Creech

To some extent or another, online shopping has taken over our lives. I’m not an exception, and I recently gave in to a particularly useful impulse buy. It was a fidget cube– a desk toy with six faces of buttons, clickers, and spinning parts.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Abdul Qadeer Rehan

Today marked the completion of week 6 of my summer internship. It is hard to wrap my head around the fact that college resumes in almost a month now. Realizing this also made me consider what it would be to attend next semester during the pandemic.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Max Dornfest

This internship is going by so quickly. Covid-19 has changed my perception of time, such that the beginning of lock-down in late March seems a lifetime ago; while this internship seems to have only been four weeks.

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Kyle Blasinsky

Over the last couple weeks, I've gone on a unit tangent and now here's a citation tangent. Aside from the tangent part, this is a beautiful example of me using some of the policy knowledge I've gained over the course of the summer. 

Sunday, July 12, 2020

Alex Mikulich

I have just finished up my sixth week, where I managed to snag a lab at my university to work in for the summer. I reached out to a member of my university's Environment, Health and Safety office and they managed to get me my own workspace in the basement of one of their buildings.

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