July 11

Another day in the Astro department has come and gone, almost. We started our morning with the intern meeting as usual, but Bob brought donuts so that helped wake me up. Then we had our morning astro meeting, which was the same as always, and went to work. After about five minutes though Bob came down and grabbed Kevin and I to help move this optical bench, which is really a big hunk of metal supported by two granite blocks. HEAVY!! But now it makes a nice display in the lobby of the Carlson building. After that I spent pretty much the entire day doing the same thing I did yesterday, except with the far UV images. So now i have two stacks of papers with pretty pictures of galaxies on them!! Monday I will probably turn them into JPEGS so I can post them online. So that was my day. Oh yeah, Bob and Joe wanted us to pick a job from the list in the hall assuming we had the necessary qualifications. I guess I would probably pick the Imaging scientist / engineer for Aptina Imaging because it would give me a chance to do some engineering (what I hope to go to college for) and work to improve the way digital cameras capture images, which is pretty cool and cutting edge. So yeah, that was my day, and soon I can leave and it will be the weekend. Life is good : )