Day 34 & 35- "The End."

Well between Thursday and today everything was focused on the final presentation. It went pretty well and I think that everyone did an awesome job and it was cool to see all their projects. All I can say now is goodbye. Thank you everybody for giving me this opportunity. Good night.

Day 33- "DEADLINE."

So I turned my powerpoint in time...thats always good. Then I researched a paper Jake had me look at that investigates turbulence (and some kinematic equations) in AGN. Cool Stuff.

Day 32- "Hmmm..."

So your probably wondering why I skipped day 31. or not. Either way I'll tell you. I took the day off on Monday which was awesome. Well today I worked on my programs that finds the M shapes and then I did a practice presentation which went pretty well. Cool stuff.

Day 30- "I think I should start my powerpoint..."

So today I worked on my code for the velocity dispersion graphs. Then I realized that all the other interns had started working on their powerpoints. So I decided to start mine...Oh yea. And I have a three-day weekend. Score.

Day 29- "Polynomial Palooza"

So today I kept using polyfit.pro on IDL to make fits for my data. I was semi-successful. I will continue tomorrow. Peace.

Day 28- "Three Times a...uh"

So i forgot to write in my blog again...for the third time. But anyways yesterday I worked on a program that would help me identify 'm' shapes in my velocity dispersion graphs. Still working on it...

Day 27- "$"

So I got the rest of my money today which makes me feel good. Anyways the whole day I worked on differentiating my velocity dispersion graphs in order to investigate jet interactions in the galaxies. It went pretty smoothly and at the end of the day I am going to show Jake...Sweet.

Day 26- "Calculus...?"

So today I began to figure out ways to quantify jet effects on the observed flux. I decided that if I differentiate the functions and determine derivatives I would be able to figure out sudden changes in the graph. However I haven't really taken Calc in high school yet, besides a month or so where I taught myself. Wish me luck...

Day 25- "Goodbye Undergrads"

So today I watched all my lab partners present their research in the Undergrad Research Symposium. That meant the end of some of their time here at RIT. I'm gonna miss 'em. Well its Friday. I will restart my research on Monday. Peace.

Day 24- "Practice makes perfect."

So today the majority of my day went to watching the undergrads practice their presentations. I learned some cool new things. Fun stuff.

Day 23- "Beast Code."

So I forgot to my blog...again. Thus the reason why I am writing a blog about Wednesday on Thursday. Anyways yesterday I worked on my code for the line diagnostics and made it so it plotted the graphs for all three slits into one file. Its pretty awesome.

Day 22- "Great Success!"

So today I worked on a code to make postscript graphs of line diagnostics. It was very successful although I am still having difficulties making the program less "manual". I will have it figured out by tomorrow. That is all. Goodbye.

Day 21- "Monday Madness...well I don't know"

So today we embarked on a tour of the U of R Laser Lab. It was really cool, but our tour guide didn't know anything...all he could say was I don't know. Besides that Jake gave me some insight on what to do with line diagnostics. Also mutt is not allowing us to get into our astro folders which has posed somewhat of a problem...

DAY 20- "Oops."

So I forgot to write in my blog on Friday...it was a weird day though. We went to ITT for a tour that was pretty interesting. It was cool to hear how they developed lenses and mirrors for space telescopes. After that I researched more about line diagnostics for a little while. My usual routine was sort of messed up, but it was a productive day. I also had an awesome weekend.