American Institute of Physics

Week Six: Weekends, Writing, and Working with Websites

Friday, July 7, 2017

Lexxi Reddington

This past week consisted of only three actual work days, due to the long-weekend. Not surprisingly, D.C. goes crazy for the Fourth of July. There were beautiful fireworks, immensely large crowds, and lots of fun.

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Week 5: Installing

Monday, July 3, 2017

Victoria (Tori) Eng

Another week has come and gone here and D.C., it is crazy how quickly the time is passing here. I’m pretty sure all the interns are enjoying ourselves and frankly I don’t want to think about leaving, I know I won’t want to go.

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Week Five: “Air”ing my grievances through words

Friday, June 30, 2017

Lisa McDonald

Halfway through the summer and I've set a new record for this internship position: publishing two articles with still five weeks to go.

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Week Five: The Capital and the Cases

Friday, June 30, 2017

Lexxi Reddington

This week, we finished installing our physical exhibit, Why the History of Physics Matters, in the Neils Bohr Library & Archives! This was incredibly exciting because we got to see all our efforts over the past five weeks finally come together into a final product.

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Week Four: Addressing a troubling truth

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Lisa McDonald

I watched nine hours’ worth of videos, took extensive notes, and composed a beautiful article…that won’t actually be published on FYI.

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Week 4: Exploring

Thursday, June 22, 2017

Victoria (Tori) Eng

This past weekend was the first time I got to explore D.C. tourist side. On Saturday, I was a bit of a busy bee. I went to the Eastern Market to get lunch and look around the stalls. They had a whole stall for custom bowties!

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Week 4: More Paper and Project Plans

Friday, June 23, 2017

Lexxi Reddington

This past week was filled with a lot of loose ends, as Tori and I finished the final touches on the exhibit cases.

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Week 3: Learning

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Victoria (Tori) Eng

This week has been amazing in its own way. During the school year like so many other students around the country, I work a part time job over 20 hours a week, am a full-time student, and an officer in multiple clubs.

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Week Three: First Full-Length Bulletin

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Lisa McDonald

While this week’s post is arriving a little later than my first two, I am confident it was worth the wait: my first full-length article published on Friday!

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Week Three: Cutting Paper and Cruising

Friday, June 16, 2017

Lexxi Reddington

Over the past week, Tori and I have been working on the physical aspects of creating the exhibit: finalizing designs, printing and resizing images, obtaining the large images for the backgrounds, etc.

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