We had our last group dinner on Saturday! Thank you to Abby for planning this great event. Texas Roadhouse was fun, there was great food, and it was great reflecting on some of the great memories in the program. We have one more week ahead of us, and then on Saturday, we part ways for now.

Today, our grad mentor gave us some edits for the paper and poster. For the paper, there was some work do to on our discussion. We had listed out the future directions of the project, but Lucia suggested that we had to explain further why those directions would make sense. Our paper also needs a discussion of the limitations of our experiment. I’ve started to make some changes, but I will check with her later to make sure the paper is on the right track. There has also been some updates to the poster with which we have been going back and forth with her. I really like how much the poster has improved since the first draft. I can’t wait to present it on Thursday — and next spring at my university’s undergraduate research day. In the meantime, we have to keep working hard to meet these final deadlines this week.