Intern Blog Postings

Monday, July 6, 2020

Benjamin Petkie

Wow already reflecting on week 5, time is really flying now and the summer AAPT meeting is coming up fast! The panel I’m hosting is coming along well, I reached out to one of my mentors and they connected me with 4 of their students.

Monday, July 6, 2020

Max Dornfest

This fourth of July, while traveling down the river that is my internship, I looked outside sometime around evening. The sun was setting. It was painting a rainbow of autumn colors across the sky.

Monday, July 6, 2020

Abigail Ambrose

Happy end of week 5! We are somehow already halfway through the summer. Currently, I am working to narrow accomplishments so that only the most important are in the short biographies I am writing for the SOR Fellows. How do you gauge what is the most important accomplishments in somebody’s life?

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Jack Moody

This was a short but chaotic week here at APS Careers. The long and short of it is that this week can “kindly” be called, Shape Up week...The email series had a very tumultuous timeline that took up far more headspace than Midhat or I predicted.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Billy "Trey" Cole

We are about at the halfway mark of this summer internship and it is hard to fathom, it seems like we only just started.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Abdul Qadeer Rehan

The halfway mark brings me closer to completing my project. While we have covered a lot of ground there is still a vast set of tasks to which I look forward to completing over the coming weeks. This was the first time that I got to experience a long weekend in a work setting.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Paul McKinley

This week’s post will be a bit less focused on work, and a bit more focused on a small (relatively menial) experiment I’m running this week on human behavior, namely my own.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Samantha Creech

Since the pandemic accelerated back in March, we’ve all been experiencing a weird passage of time. For some, it’s plodded by, each week like a year. For others, we blinked and found ourselves in July.

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Anna Murphree

[All views are my own.]

Somehow we are halfway through this internship! There’s a Bon Jovi reference in there somewhere, but I’m too proud to make it.

Joseph Dees

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Joseph Dees

While there are many things that I could talk about on this day, today is a day of remembrance.  You might ask what we are to remember?  Two Hundred Forty-Four years ago, our forefathers founded this country.  While everyone will agree that this country is not perfect, we can also agree that it i

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