Intern Blog Postings

Week 6: Traveling to the Czech Republic

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Benjamin Perez

T.S. Elliot once said "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." This quote resonates with me and why I have wanted to travel around the world.

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Week 6: Fourth of July Weekend

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Ashley Finger

The week leading up to Independence Day was a recess week for Congress. As a result, I had expected the week to go slowly with no hearings, markups, or briefings to speak of.

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Week 6: I need arrays. (A Raise? get it? puns...)

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Kirsten Randle

After further discussion with Dr. Chuss and Karwan, we needed to change the optimization method.

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Week 6: Georgetown, the Waterfront, and the Fourth of July!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Simon Patane

A shortened week with the holiday coming up on Friday! But so much to write about nonetheless. All of the interns had a wonderful time exploring more of D.C. this past weekend.

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Week 5: July 4th

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Benjamin Preis

Week two in the office was pretty great. On Monday, the intern coordinator Gary returned from his week in the district. Though I thought he was in his mid-forties by the tone of his email, it turns out he is not much older than me.

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Week 6: The Fourth of July!- Short Week!

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Jacob Zalkind

The Fourth of July!- Short Week!

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Week 6: Fourth of July

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Nick Durofchalk

With the fourth of July coming quicker than I could anticipate, the work week flew by way to fast. Caleb and I, with a sigh of relief, finished our first pass cataloguing, documenting, printing, and analyzing the entirety of the usable IUE spectrograph data.

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Week 6: First week at NIST and July Fourth

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Kearns Louis-Jean

My first day at NIST went really well. My boss Dr. Catherine Rimmer is really fun to work for. I also met Ms. Karen Cloud who is a former participant of the NIST summer Institute for Middle School Science Teachers.

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Week 5: Getting to Know Each Other

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Kelby Peterson

Ashley, Simon and I "Touring Texas" at Safeway's National BBQ Battle

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Week 5: In the summertime, when the weather is high . . .

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Caleb L. Heath

So is the mercury. And the humidity. And yes, the sky is far too close for my liking. But hey, it's been not bad for rain this year. I have yet to be utterly destroyed by freak rain showers. My hair's gone out of control, but it does that anyway. You're really disappointing me DC!

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