Intern Blog Postings

Week 9: Intern Activities™

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Sonja Boettcher

The SPS interns did a lot of collective intern activities this week. In addition, Maia and I did a lot of walking (and spending money).

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Week 9: Bad day to go against Ohio

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

To begin my penultimate week here with SPS, I worked from ACP once again. I successfully finished the programming portion of my spectral analysis work. I, of course, celebrated with the typical loss to Charlotte in bananagrams and for good measure tacked on a Scrabble loss as well.

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Week 8: Economics Homework Has Taken Over My Life

Monday, July 22, 2024

Charles Wszalek

Hello everyone!

It's really strange that this is the 8th week of 10! Only two weeks left!

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Week 8: The Common Darter

Monday, July 22, 2024

Maia Chandler

Dear dragonflies, I love you. We’ve covered all the dragonfly physics topics in the SOCK, so now it is time to move on to fun facts. Fun fact number one: dragonflies do backflips.

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Week 2: "Why spend 30 minutes on a task when you can spend 30 hours automating it?" - Every Computer Scientist ever.

Monday, July 22, 2024

Collins Kariuki

Hello there! In my last blog post, I shared the objectives of my internship at AIP, but I overlooked a key aspect of my role here. I am tasked with finding an effective way to automate the chapter activity report update process at AIP.

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Week 8: The Chaos Continues

Monday, July 22, 2024

Amanda Maeglin

It’s absolutely crazy to me that I only have two weeks left in DC. It feels like just yesterday that I arrived here, not knowing anybody but excited for the summer to start. Now I know this group of 16 interns so well, and I’m staring down the end of our time together.

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Stairs: A Comprehensive Guide

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Evan Erickson

Have you ever faced a series of flat surfaces regularly offset from each other in a horizontal and vertical displacement?

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Week 8: Busy as a bee

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Kai Hostetter-Habib

There’s a classic piece that flautists often play called “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Mind you, I have never been able to play it up to speed because I only play the flute casually, but if it doesn’t invoke anxiety, I don’t know what will.

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Week 8: A longing for something greater (chili dog > hot dog)

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Kaden Gammon

It’s unbelievable how fast this summer has gone. It was just a few weeks ago that I was struggling to figure out how to write my first blog to describe my first week here.

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