Intern Blog Postings

Final Reflections

Monday, September 5, 2016

Simon Wright

My internship with AAPT ended more than three weeks ago. Still, I find myself nearly every day using the skills I was learning and applying this summer.

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Final Reflections

Monday, September 5, 2016

Isabel Binamira

A summer summary and some advice

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Final Reflections

Sunday, September 4, 2016

Victoria DiTomasso

As I’m getting settled into the new school year, it’s hard to miss the influence that this summer has had on me.

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Final Reflections

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Marissa Murray

I am writing this from my new apartment in Prague! I will be studying at Charles University, which Einstein taught at for a year and credits his time there to helping him formulate the general theory of relativity.

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Week Nine: Soccer and Science

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Vanessa Espinoza

What a great way to end my last full week of work. This week was really focused on finalizing my presentation because… well … the end is near. I can’t even remember how many times I have practiced so far and there is still just a little more data analysis to do.

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Week 8: Touring the Capitol Grounds

Monday, August 29, 2016

Demitri Call

This week I spent a few days off of the normal work schedule as I went to a tour of NASA Goddard with the interns and also got to give them a tour of my work place, the Capitol.

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Week 9: Wrapping it up

Monday, August 29, 2016

Demitri Call

This was my last full week in the office. It felt a little surreal to be so close to finishing. Since we are well out of session I was able to really focus on my independent projects.

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Week 9: Poster Session

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Dahlia Baker

The second to last week brings a feeling of the beginning of the end. Deadlines for NASA were finally upon us, and I found myself scrambling to make edits, format graphs, and try to summarize my past eight weeks of work into a 45 by 45 inch piece of paper.

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Week 9: We interrupt your regularly scheduled internship...

Monday, August 8, 2016

Victoria DiTomasso

In addition to my regular intern duties, I made a visit to Carnegie DTM and interviewed Brian Greene for an SPS Observer article.

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Week 9: Almost Home

Monday, August 8, 2016

Mariah Heinzerling

For the past week, I have been working on the finishing touches for the business case. I present my work next Thursday, and I am trying to make sure that I’ve done everything as close to correctly as possible.

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