Intern Blog Postings

Week 4: Teaching, Beaching, and Everything In Between.

Sunday, June 26, 2022

Emma Goulet

Week 4: Orchestras, Data! and Picnics

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Taylor Overcast

As the weeks fly by I am beginning to realize none of them will feel like 7 days, and none of them will look the same. I was expecting to fall into a rhythm after being here for a little bit.

Week 3: Settling In as a Hilltern

Monday, June 20, 2022

Katie Futrowsky

It was during this past week when I finally felt confident as a hilltern. That is, confident in my work and in my ability to make mistakes and learn from them.

Week 3: Exploration

Monday, June 20, 2022

Divyansh Chamria

There was quite a bit that happened this week, so I’m going to limit myself to some of the highlights in this post –

Week 3: The One with Joey's Bag (of Snickers)

Monday, June 20, 2022

Aidan Keaveney

Hi y’all! For this blog, I thought I would cover one of the tried and true responsibilities of the intern in any field: The Favor.

Week 3: Filled with Music

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Saksham Prajapati

This week, at my work, we discussed our project idea with the web development team, and they picked up some issue so we might not be able to finish our automated project for this fall. But we are still listing out ideas and going through the issues to find solutions.

Week 3: Le Diplomate, Orchestra Concert, 1st Update Draft, Clean up Lunch, Comedy Club, Nats Game

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Gizem Dogan

Third week in DC and I've completed my full transformation into a Nats fan.

Week 3: The ACP Balcony

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Matangi Melpakkam

For the past few weeks, I have been telling all my coworkers how cold I get in the ACP building. This week, I realized it may be a blessing in disguise. I spent all of Thursday working on the third floor balcony, and I love it! It has a great chair and is warm without being under the sun.

Week 3: Neural Networks and Punk Rock

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Benjamin Johnson

This week, I continued my experiment on the various methods we can implement to train a Reservoir Computer (RC). On Monday, I moved on from the first training technique (output matrix averaging) to the second technique: passing the mu value from the Van der Pol system directly into the RC as an