8/13/12 Late

The stress level declined throughout the day as I realized that I am not really behind! As I arrive back, the SMI goes back up and people can finally start their projects, including me. I just need to tweak mine and it will be nearly ready. The analysis is what worries me, but I'll make it work the best I can. The powerpoint is not a difficult task, and in fact, I might have a hard time with keeping information out, rather than coming up with it. I am looking forward to the presentation, and I believe I will do great. Tomorrow I will finish up and get my consent form out.

Mike

8/13/12 Morning

I am just coming back from a week vacation and I must say, I feel a bit behind, even though not much went on last week. I just feel pressed for time with so much to do. I have to read an entire chapter of the book overnight, work on a Powerpoint of which I do not yet know the objective, build an experiment, and run it. This is all a bit much to handle, but I'll get it done if I can stay focussed. Off to work!

Mike

8/3/12

Neither of my advisors were here today, so the entire day was spent fixing up pages for my project, as well as making the consent form and beginning to organize the actual experiment. There was the weekly cook out and the daily coffee break as well, which livened up the day. I believe my slides are, for the most part, finished, so now I can focus on my experiment!

Mike

8/2/12

Today consisted, initially, of mostly Photoshop for my project. However, since it was the last day of the intern challenge, we all began to work on that. I met with Cassie, my partner, a few times. We aligned as needed, found many clues, and eventually were able to solve the challenge. The day was very good for team building based upon the task that troubled all of us for the week.

The answer to the challenge:

8/1/12

Today I did not see our professors much, so the entire day consisted of making slides for my project, which proved very productive. Also, the lunch video was quite interesting, as was a few intern activities. It was not a very eventful day!

Mike

7/31/12

Until the meeting, I finished editing a page or two, but mostly did some brief research on wavelets to learn more about them and how they work. I learned their relationship to Fourier transform and other things. The meeting went very well, since my questions this time were completely genuine and useful. I gained some insight on my project as far as the tasks, and also gained confidence, since not many people questioned what I was doing or how I was doing it. I learned a lot about the other projects as well, which gives me some good background knowledge and an opportunity for crossover. After the meeting, I touched up on a page, blogged, and closed my day in the reading room with our intern challenge.

Mike

7/30/12

The day really began with our meeting about projects at 10 am. I learned more about what direction I could take my project. There is a way to analyze the wavelets of different frequencies to isolate the ICA from lighting affects. This will be difficult, but if I work with people in the lab and develop a good enough experiment, I can get some useful information out of it, as can the lab. So after the meeting, I emailed Sandra Marshall for some assistance, since she has done work in ICA. I also created slides for a pilot experiment, as well as several slides for my actual experiment. The day was very productive and involved a lot of independent work. Tomorrow we will meet about Chapter 3, which I will be prepared for!

Mike