Friday, June 29, 2018
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So we are officially more than ⅓ of the way through the internship and it has flown by. This past weekend was spent riding my bike all through DC. Then astronomy at the mall was a lot of fun. It was long and I lost my voice however it is always a great experience to explain some physical phenomena to people.
Life at NIST has been fun. This week consisted of me wrapping up some codes and plotting all the data and organizing it for when my PI comes back on Monday. There are over 50 possible plots, so it has been a challenge narrowing them down / organizing them to effectively look over all the data. I also got to learn how one of the devices down in the lab works. One of the students who has been here a while gave me a brief rundown and so that will come in handy next week when I start measuring things.
Aside from working on NIST I have continued to work on practicing for the GRE and working on my CV and graduate school list. I am also preparing for my summer class which starts in a little over a week. I ordered my book, so I am ready to go. This week on Wednesday we had a dinner with the CEO of AIP at the fancy restaurant Sette Osteria. It was a very nice dinner and relaxing break. Then on today on friday we had a soccer tournament.(Side note; since the world cup is on, you can find people all across the place streaming games and watching them in conference rooms).
Okay so this Friday NIST had its annual summer soccer tournament. It is open to the summer undergrads, guest researchers, post docs, and anyone who wanted to. We played at NIST’s picnic area and it was not what I expected. The flyer said for friendly games on Friday. I showed up and everyone was there and wanted to win. So it was more competitive when I was expecting, but that's a good thing! However, because I figured it would’ve been more friendly, I was only expecting to play a couple games… My team and I ended up playing 7 games since we made it to the finals. We played from 1-5pm. We were dead, it was 90+ degrees outside, and crazy humid. Still it was an awesome experience that I’ll never forget. I got play with postdocs and researchers from all across the world. Now, unfortunately we lost the finals and came in second place, but like I said we had fun just playing. (I was barely able to make it home with so many blisters )
Jesus Perez