July 31

This morning we went to the U of R to tour the labs of the interns that toured our labs yesterday. A lot of their research seemed really interesting and applicable. I thought the lab where they are attempting to connect artificial neurons to natural neurons was especially interesting. I also learned that when I stand in a small room that smells like mouse and watch an intern rip the heart out of a living mouse, cut its head off, and remove its brain, I pass out!! Or at least I almost did. I suppose I am fortunate to be working in astronomy and not a bio-engineering lab. Again we got free pizza, which is great because I am almost out of cash. After returning to RIT, I learned a better way to read TIFF files from Jake. Unfortunately, this did not solve the eroding problem that I had been having, so I still need to do it one array at a time. I tried it with one today and it worked, the challenge will be reintroducing the color and recompiling the images.