Friday, June 22, 2018
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Week 3 has gone by a little too quick. I am starting to worry that time is going to fly by. However it makes sense since this week has been very productive. My mentor is out of the country for the next two weeks so I have been working on getting him the results he asked for and more. Monday I worked right through lunch. Before I knew it it was 2pm. I was in the zone working on one of the modules for my project. Then around 3pm I hit a wall because I was reading one of the papers and it turned out that the theory did not hold true for high frequencies. However there were some intermediate steps that I implemented to try and bypass that wall so we’ll see ‘off’ the results turn out. Then Monday night was one of the interns birthday so we had a dinner and played some board games. It was fun to hang out with the other interns. I’ve been working a lot on studying for the GRE and preparing some things for graduate school applications, so it was nice to take a break.
The first two weeks were spent reading up on the theory and applications of transmission theory which was helpful in trying to develop a code to for my project. Tuesday was spent completing my first code for my project. It took a while to decompose and understand the previous postdocs code. He is long gone so unfortunately I had to figure it out on my own which is only a bad thing since his code was not labeled that well. Then wednesday was spent debugging my code and constructing a ‘reference and explanation’ document to go along with all the files for the next person who might use it.
Then on thursday I finished up another code that took a different approach which yielded some values that seemed off. So I edited and debugged it on friday. Thursday was a short day since on thursday we had our SPS cruise dinner. Which was a blast! A really great stress reliever and break from work.
Oh last saturday I was able to buy a used bike at flea market. So I have been able to use it in my commute. I don’t have to worry about missing the NIST shuttle anymore. I also was able to ride for a bit on the weekend. I ended up riding into Virginia and around the North side of D.C. where they had some beautiful roads and trails next to rivers and alot of trees.
Jesus Perez