The weekend was super fun. On Saturday we had a potluck get together at our super cool mentors’ apartment (Natasha). Everyone either brought or made something, and all the food came out great. We also played games and had lots … Continue reading →
I totally forgot to blog about our recent Luncheon Lecture speakers, Cody Fleming and Wesley Lefferts. Both two awesome speakers whom I really enjoyed their talk. I genuinely find these lectures so helpful and inspiring, and I am not sure … Continue reading →
It’s been a little while since my last blog and quite a few things have gone down. We finally submitted our poster which was such a relief (shoutout Kate Wang for all her help she’s our goat). I think all … Continue reading →
Time is running quick. We are in the final stages of our project with only two and a half weeks left and we have lots to do. Our group specifically, Echo XR, is working on audio recordings for our iterative … Continue reading →
Last Friday on July 11th we headed to the University of Iowa for presentations at 7:30am. The car ride there was pretty great, all the girls from the REU + Johann joined a jam on Spotify and we were just … Continue reading →
The four-day weekend was much needed. It felt so good to relax and have a good amount of time off. I felt as if so much happened this past week. On the 3rd of July, the remaining of the interns … Continue reading →
I very much enjoyed both of the luncheon lectures with both of these speakers. Beginning with Debra Kumar, her overall adventure and experience with Google was insane. She was so humble and sweet. It’s crazy that she had worked at … Continue reading →
Last Wednesday we finally finished our MCA projects. I was sort of relieved to get these out of the way although it would have been nice to have been able to implement all the things that we wanted to into … Continue reading →
Our projects are just an overall emotional rollercoaster, one day I’m feeling great, the next day confused, another lost and so on. From what I hear so far though is that that’s perfectly normal. I think our Deeper Dive project … Continue reading →
Today is our official first “optional” activity, which means we are already halfway through the program. That’s insane!! Anyways, for our activity today we are going to play Badminton at the State Gym which I’m super excited about. I have … Continue reading →
I just want to take a moment to talk about all the speakers in our luncheon lectures thus far, Eliot Winer, Jack Miller, Jim Oliver and Holly Oberbroecking. I think that these lectures are extremely helpful and always give us … Continue reading →
This Tuesday we had Karaoke night & it was so much fun! Everyone participated and sang at least one song. It was nice to see people get out of their comfort zones and enjoying themselves. Even David sang a few … Continue reading →
The talk with Jack Miller was really interesting! I really enjoyed how real he kept it with us. He gave us great advice and overall talked about some really cool stuff. He is such a cool guy, he offered to … Continue reading →
It’s been a minute since I last blogged, so much has happened. Yesterday we did light painting which was actually super cool. Right now, we are using blender and its chill. Yesterday some of the gang and I went to … Continue reading →
It has been an interesting first week! On Saturday, we went to an Escape Room and ate a Zombie Burger which was quite interesting. My burger had fried bananas and peanut butter which was actually really good! For the most … Continue reading →
Today we got an introduction to the three different research projects. Each mentor and staff members presented a slide of what their research project was about. We then got into our individual groups to discuss more about our projects and … Continue reading →