This program gave me so much more than I ever could have imagined going into this summer. I’ve learned so many skills and developed so many new passions along the way, from building Unity environments, to setting up machine learning … Continue reading →
Wow, I can’t believe it’s almost over. This has been such an incredible experience and I’m just going to try and take full advantage of it for this final week. This summer has truly gone by so fast and I’m … Continue reading →
Today has been a whirlwind. We started off with a talk by Stephen G about how to apply to grad school which was really interesting. I didn’t realize that the application process to undergrad was so different, and that it’s … Continue reading →
On Friday, our group hopped into a couple vans and drove 2 hours to the University of Iowa. There, we met 11 other REU students and got to watch them present about each of their projects. Their topics were health … Continue reading →
We just got done listening to our luncheon lecture speaker Miko Wilford. I love coming out of luncheon lectures because I always feel like I learned SO much and this was no exception. I dont know much about the legal … Continue reading →
This week has definitely been intense working with both the MCA projects and the larger project, but it’s been really exciting watching our MCA come together. Seeing how the ML model is working with the unity environment for our object … Continue reading →
This week has gone by fast. I’ve been working with Nathan on what we want to do for our deeper dive project and I just started getting somewhere yesterday with the model! Unfortunately we may have to pivot seeing as … Continue reading →
We got our deeper dive groups! I was put in the machine learning group with Adam and Stephen which I’m excited about because I don’t know much about ML and since it’s such a hot topic right now in tech, … Continue reading →
This week we started Unity! I’ve been so excited for the creative aspects of this part of our courses and it has been so much fun. Being able to import our blender houses into an environment that we can actually … Continue reading →
Here are a couple things that I immediately thought of, just in my own dorm room that could definitely be more user friendly. This is meant to be a table for you to place your stuff on while in your … Continue reading →
Today we started working with blender which I was excited about but was a lot harder than I was expecting. There are so many amazing things you can make with it and so I really hope it starts to get … Continue reading →
Yesterday we starting working with solid works! This is one of the things I was pretty excited about, seeing as I enjoy modeling but haven’t worked with CAD since high school. There was definitely a learning curve but today I … Continue reading →
Yesterday was a blast! We started off the day taking group photos around campus which was so much fun, I can’t wait see how they turned out. Then we got back and had a really interesting lunch and learn meeting … Continue reading →
Hi guys! Last night we had game night and got to play wearwolf and taboo which was a ton of fun and everyone got super into it! Today we did another C++ lesson and I got to help a couple … Continue reading →
Today we started off with a talk about ethics in human testing for research. It’s so much more in depth then I ever expected. But now, i recognize that it is a really important step in the research process, seeing … Continue reading →
Alright, we’ve made it to the second week! I’m working on putting together a slideshow of one of the research papers I found about cyber sickness and reading the other papers we were given to review. Everything is going by … Continue reading →
We made it to the first week! Meeting the interns and the mentors I’ll be working with has been so exciting. Everyone is from a different US state which is exciting, as I’m hoping to learn from their various geographical … Continue reading →