August 20

I ran through my presentation with Mr. Pow and May, and have to make some changes. But overall, it was good. I also helped jason with cords and moving equipment in my "office". I hope i do well in the practice run through at U of R tomorrow!

August 19th

I finished my lab report and worked on my presentation. I am pretty far with the presentation, almost done. I just have to look it over at home. i was also part of the eye tracking experiment again. My task during the experiment was to find the irregularities in the brain scans in different images with different color patterns.

August 16

I worked on my presentation today and also on the poster. In additions, today I went to an RIT information session and talked to the counselor. I felt proud of myself because I knew a lot about what was presented, and also knew about the internship opportunities they talked about.

August 15

I found a website for Alvin that has LandSAT TM images for the entire globe, he was very pleased with me. He said when May comes back he is still going to have me working for him. The afternoon I searched for information on duel imaging for him, no luck though :(.

August 14th another note

Well, yes, this is another blog for August 14th. I've worked on my poster and tried to find the picture of the power plant cite that May is testing with, but I couldn't find one.

August 14

Today, oh today, why is brazil so hard to find!!!!!!! (still for the LandSAT TM images) I transfered my work onto a flash so i could work at home if i needed to. So, yeah, basically today was spent researching, and Alvin left early I think, so I didn't know what I could do other than research.

August 12

I found some LandSAT TM files for Washington D.C. for Alvin, actually a pretty good website of them. I worked on my 1st draft of the poster and sent that in, and also made an abstract of my project for the University of Rochester visit, where we will practice our presentations.

August 11

I researched LandSAT TM images for Ouro Preto in Brazil, Sierra Nevada in California, and for Washington D.C. to help Alvin out. May is gone so i'm working for Alvin for some of the week. I found a great site for Sierra Nevada, but it seems that no one cares about making the files for the other two easy to find. (Scientists have a weird habit of naming their project title the most complicated thing that they can come up with. Why can't they name the title something that is obvious and understandable?)

August 8th

Today I worked on my lab write up, ran around trying to find things (like all over the proximity), and went out to eat lunch (nothing special, just McDonalds). The morning was hectic, the evening, cool down time.

August 7th

I collected the data from the experiment I ran over night and transfered it to Excell. Then I worked on figuring out why the ice capsule leaked and made some changes to the structure, the picture above is the new capsule. Later I worked on my lab and looked over the comments and changes.

August 6th

Today I worked on another ice capsule/thermocouple trial run. There were some problems with Trial #3 that May and I wanted to check upon. The testing conditions are about the same. I also interviewed with the RIT Honor's Director and learned more about the program.

August 5th

I remade the labs so they were in the right format as well as understandable.  I had to rush because May wanted to present them in a meeting she had, which was at the time, in one hour.  That was fun and stressful, but I finished in time.  I also have almost finished the lab report.  Jeez, lab reports in college are way different than high school reports.  The work I've been doing on this report is comparable to a final exam or project in school.  Yikes.

August 4th

Today we toured ITT and I had a blast! In the opening, we were informed of the areas that ITT works with; they include national security, weather imaging, and maps used by google maps. I am interested in the national security part; using images to find things like tanks, airstrips, etc. When I first learned about the Imaging Sciences and remote sensing, that is exactly what I envisioned in my mind and what I wanted to do! I later asked one of the people on the tour about internships at ITT and was told that there are high school internships during the summer. I am so excited, I will definitly apply for a job for next summer there!
Oh, and at work, I worked on my lab report some more.

August 1st

Today I researched containers to hold ice blocks, but had trouble. I guess companies just don't like giving out their secrets. The Remote sensing interns (myself included) had a meeting with May about lab reports and how they should look and be overall. I learned that I didn't need to give out instructions on how to do the experiment, just to convey how we did it. I learned a lot about the college lab format and am happy because this is great preparation for the future.