Sunday, July 28, 2024
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With just a week left, this past week made for one of the best in the summer. To begin, on Tuesday we visited the Niels Bohr Library Archives, which was pretty cool to see some cool historical documents or just fun, random things like Richard Feynman’s calculus notes. Although, following the tour was trivia, and I’m afraid that my knowledge on libraries and document preservation was very weak.
Moving onto Thursday, we had our Intern Appreciation Lunch at the main office with all the other interns. Huge thanks to the staff at SPS for getting the interns together for a day to relax and work together. It was a fun time getting to see everyone and work in the office together for once, although minimal work was done in between intense debates over Star Wars, Batman, and other great movies. Afterwards, I returned to Ben’s Chili Bowl for yet another chili dog and then played some basketball with Johnny and Muji.
Friday was awesome to say the least. Thanks to Charles, we had a tour of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The tour consisted of Hubble Control Center, the beginning of the LISA telescope and Roman telescope, and of a lab for analyzing asteroid samples. This was definitely one of the coolest things we got to see this summer. Afterwards, I enjoyed a dinner with a group of interns and hung out at the apartments for the rest of the night.
Following a morning run on Saturday, a bunch of us got brunch and then checked out the Air and Space Smithsonian (also a very cool place that I recommend and would like to see again). Then on Sunday, the Olympics began. You may be thinking that the Olympics started before then and you’re right, however, I am talking about the SPS Intern Olympics. Interns were pitted against each other in their respective nations (teams of 3 or 4) and faced fierce competitive events (a lot of spikeball, frisbee throwing, soccer, hallway hurdles, guno, and more). The competition was fierce, but fortunately my nation and fellow citizens, Brynn and Maia, brought home gold. Thanks to Charlotte and Jenna for planning/hosting this, it was a great way to spend the final full weekend in DC for the summer.
Kaden Gammon