Harrison – Day 9
- I missed yesterday’s post unfortunately so this will be a quick recap of my time since Friday.
- On Friday, most of the interns watched the movie Memento. This was a movie that Chu-Chu highly recommended and we had been putting off for a while. Honestly, the movie was phenomenal. I had never seen a movie set up as it was, and it was thrilling until the end. I appreciate Chu-Chu for the recommendation.
- Saturday, we had to wake up early to go to a rope course. This rope course was smaller than I expected but as I was on it, it felt higher than I expected. I felt like the team building activities we had to do before the rope course were a bit much. If we just did the rope course however, we would have only been there for thirty minutes so I understand them trying to lengthen the time.
- The most fun part of the weekend was the welcome picnic for all Iowa State REU interns. Our group met the AI research crew. They were all very interesting and it felt like both groups bonded. (We even went to the pool with one of them on Monday.) At the picnic, even though there were a lot of people, we played volleyball, yet no one was particularly good which I think made it more fun.
- Yesterday was my first introduction to SolidWorks. Alex was an amazing teacher and I felt pretty confident in my ability at first. That confidence quickly dwindled however when he gave us our first real task. I found myself asking for help for many functions. I did succeed in building some pieces for a small 3-d printed build but the even the simplest pieces were a bit tough. I was tired from the weekend and felt a bit bad because I felt like I was falling asleep a bit in Alex’s afternoon lecture.
- Finally, I am excited for later today. Our mentor, Aron is taking the Curiosity EEG team to see the EEG and how it works. I think the plan is for Sophie to wear the cap while Lydia and I look at the data and learn more about how the EEG works. Hopefully this wakes me up from the long weekend and allows me to get mentally prepared for the week.
- My last thought is that I tried the Dunkin Donuts donut swirl coffee this morning. The guy behind the register told me that the donut swirl coffee was good with raspberry in it. He said it would taste like Jelly donut coffee. It was not good at all. It did help me wake up, but I will never be drinking the donut swirl coffee again.
Nice post. Great to see everything you are doing. Sorry about the Dunkin 🙂