July 22

Today was our first field trip. We went to Bausch and Lomb where Mr. Powell showed us around. In addition to seeing one of the manufacturing lines for contact lenses, we got to go into a few of the labs that do work and research surrounding current developments in optics at B and L. Needless to say, it was a great opportunity for us to see the kinds of jobs we may be looking at as graduating BS and MS students. After the tour (which lasted until about noon) we went out for lunch, Joe's treat. Then returned to RIT around one for a half day of work. In that time I managed to figure out the source of my problems with the four remaining galaxies, and fix them. Now all the data from the 14 galaxies has been successfully compiled and my results are posted on flickr. Overall, it was a pretty good day. I got to spend the morning on a tour, and the afternoon successfully fixing all my problems from last week and yesterday!