On Friday, we had the opportunity to visit the University of Iowa campus and swap presentation with the REU group there. It was interesting to see how they faced similar research challenges, despite all their projects being based in the … Continue reading →
A big thank you to Debra Kumar for coming and speaking with us last week. I thought it was super cool to hear about her experience at Google and how the culture shifted into something she no longer believed in, … Continue reading →
Huge thank you to Holly Oberbroeckling for coming and talking with us today. She took part in the SPIRE EIT intern group in 2014! We got to learn about her experience in the program and her group’s project which was … Continue reading →
One of the coolest parts about the intern experience has been the luncheon lectures we have each week. Elliot did the first lecture, and we learned all about his experience in research and how he has gotten to where he … Continue reading →
We finally had the chance to try taco pizza on Sunday, and I was disappointed. It definitely didn’t live up to the anticipated hype (Taco Salad is better). The pizza break was very needed after a rough week attempting to … Continue reading →
Apparently, there is a thing here called taco pizza and also breakfast pizza here in Iowa. We we’re planning on walking to Pizza Pit on Tuesday so the interns would have a chance to try this incredible creation that is … Continue reading →
It’s the start of our first full week for the program and we are learning C++. I haven’t used C++ before, but I can definitely see the parallels to other object-oriented programming languages like C#. I’m still learning and hope … Continue reading →
It’s been two days since I arrived in Ames and started my research internships at Iowa State University. It honestly already feels like I have found a home here. I super excited to start learning and doing some research but … Continue reading →