Intern Blog Postings

Week 5: Time Flies

Friday, June 26, 2015

Hannah Pell

It seems as though we’ve all been saying the same things this week. “I can’t believe we’re halfway done.” “It feels like I just got here yesterday.” “Time is flying by!” And this is all very true.  My experiences so far in D.C.

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Week 4: Slowing Down

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Patrick Mangan

The fourth week has definitely been the most calm out of all of them. Maybe it’s just that I’m getting used to busy city life, or maybe it’s just that this week wasn’t as filled with internship action as the previous weeks. But it was still a good week.

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Week 4: Almost Halfway Done??

Monday, June 22, 2015

Rachel Odessey

It’s hard for me to believe that this summer program is almost halfway over—the last few weeks have gone by so fast that I can barely keep track. If the next few weeks keep up like this I will definitely be exhausted by August. This last week has been no exception to the craziness.

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Max Torke

Week 4: Rock Climbing in DC

Monday, June 22, 2015

Max Torke

I spent Saturday running errands. Sunday was a little more exciting. I went to a bouldering gym with a few of the SPS interns and met an intern working in an international justice department. We all ended up going out to sushi together, meeting up with more SPS interns for an all-you-can-eat sushi dinner. I ended up joining the gym on my next visit.

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Week 4: Tom Marvolo Snowden

Monday, June 22, 2015

Elias Kim

The end of a hard week motioned in the beginning of a very full weekend. On Saturday, a couple interns and I made our way back down to the Nationals’ Stadium for DC’s annual beer and wine festival. Newly legal, I am a novice on the intricacies of craft beer.

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Week 4: Nice and Steady

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Veronica Martinez-Vargas

First and foremost, the target substrate is ready! It was finished on Friday. I spent the other days mostly working on the material exfoliation process. On Monday, Teresa and I analyzed more I-V data and obtained the charge mobility of a silicon transistor.

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Week 4 : A sloooow week

Friday, June 19, 2015

Teresa Turmanian

This past weekend I really felt the perks of being an SPS intern!  Friday evening we were all treated to a posh dinner at Clyde’s restaurant in DC.  It was DELISH!

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Week 4: Phun with Physics Phriends!

Friday, June 19, 2015

Hannah Pell

Finally after a long but successful third week, we had a chance to celebrate… with the SPS Executive Committee!

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Shauna LeFebvre

Week 2: You Can Never Have Too Much Outreach

Friday, June 19, 2015

Shauna LeFebvre

It’s that time of the week again! 

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Week 4: Already?!

Friday, June 19, 2015

Amandeep Gill

I cannot believe how fast this summer is flying by! Living in DC has been eye opening to all the benefits of living in a city, all the restaurant choices and things to do are wonderful.

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