Week 4

This week was a little crazy. Because of the holiday, we weren't on campus on Monday, so I missed a day of SEM. I'm getting a little worried about it because I had initially planned to do mostly sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) treated plastics, but I think that the washing process could be simplified. Also, I'm rethinking the value of images of the biofilms at our time points. I don't want to stop taking the data and miss something. That makes the amount of images that I need to get twice as many, and I'm sure that the closer that I take them to the collection the more accurate the pictures will be. We've also started preparing for research presentations. We have a few on the calendar. Tuesday, I had a mandatory meeting about a scholarship that lasted until nearly 6, so I lost some time to work. On Wednesday, I did SEM, and I met with an adviser to complete my applications for graduation. (I'm starting to get excited about graduation!) I also made it the bank to establish an account for the scholarship that I had a meeting about the day before. On Thursday, I went to Grad Trax. That lasted until late as well. On Friday morning, I got to make a "thank you" video that they might show at graduation!!! I hope that I did alright. It could only be a minute long, so I spent the rest of the day torturing myself about who I didn't have time to thank. We spent most of our research meeting that day preparing materials for the research presentations. After lunch, we went to Dr Bi's lab! It was so nice to visit! Amber was there too, so we got to see her as well! It was a great meeting. I got to meet the student that's continuing the project that I started, she was super nice and very active on campus. We invited her to come to the STEAM Club to talk about some of the opportunities that she's had on her campus. I hope she'll come. She's studying to be a chemical engineer. Some pictures of the Earth and Space Exploration Building (also know as ISTB4) are below. It's one of my favorite buildings on the campus, and it's also where Dr Bi's lab is. There are just so many interesting and wonderful displays in this building. These are just a few.