Sunday, June 26, 2022
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Even though Monday was Juneteenth, I still had a meeting with my professor for my directed-reading. We both chose an article to read about which will be helping me with the project I am doing for this internship.
For this week, I continued my coding while trying to add some more parameters to make the matching process much better. I will still be working on it this week as well. I met with our new team member for the project, Nicole and Phoebe, who was a previous intern for this project and she has been working on this since then. Project ideas are still in progress and hopefully we will be working on surveys from this week.
On Monday night, we went to the Bowlero. Honestly, I am not a bowling person and this was my second time playing this game. But to my surprise, I was leading from our group. I guess we all are bad with this game. One round we even changed the rule, during this round we had to get the lowest score with lane bumpers. It was funny, we were getting more pins down this time.
Then on Wednesday, Mikayla organized a picnic for all of us. Thank you for having us at your place Mikayla! It was fun having everyone and chilling around. We were supposed to hang out on the roof but the weather had a different plan for us. We gathered inside and we played pool as well.
On Thursday, my roommate - Taylor, organized a D&D game session with all the interested players. I have never played D&D and it was fun making our own characters with different powers and weaknesses. We will be continuing our D&D session this week as well.
This week has been filled with games. Friday night was a drink and game night. We had drinks and we drove, not cars but Mario kart.
On Saturday, we had an astronomy outreach event at the national mall. I thought we were doing this at a mall, a closed one, but it was an open place. This was organized by one of our interns, Janessa. She was really strong on that day to do everything and make this possible. I was assigned with the fabric of Space-time and making a cloud in a bottle. It was wonderful seeing all those curious kids and to our surprise, they really knew a lot of stuff which I didn’t expect. I also roamed around other stalls and got a chance to fill up a postal card, which will be flying to space on Blue Origin. I also got a chance to see Bill Nye - from far away. There was a huge line of people trying to get a picture with him. It was too long. To sum it up, the event was amazing! I also got a thermal pencil which changes color according to the temperature it is exposed to.
Also, this week I learned some Spanish with our SOCK intern Janessa. And I am teaching her Nepali in return. We got a gold star for ourselves (but a small one for me).
Me-yamo Saksham. Signing off!!
(Well, she did not teach me how to spell them - maybe something for this week.)
Saksham Prajapati