Day 35

Well today is the last day of work!!! Our presentation was great and so was everyone else's. After all of them were finished, Nicole and I took our moms over to Building 8 to show them our labs. I will admit that I am excited to be done, primarily because I still have essays to write for school that I have been procrastination all summer. But I did have a lot of fun this summer and got to meet some really amazing people through this internship. Plus, making money was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. The experience was worth every penny:)

Anyways, I learned a lot of stuff this summer. I was reading over my first blog and I was really nervous and stressed about being in the MRI lab because I haven't had chemistry in school yet. But this was actually the greatest intro to chem I could have experienced and now I know I will be sooooooooo prepared for it this year!

Obviously, I learned a lot about MRI, contrast agents, Omniscan, and Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis. So here is some general stuff I have taken from the internship:

• Wednesday Undergrad Seminar= free lunch
• Free lunch= delicious
• Be on time
• Joe Pow is not as scary as you think
• Carpool
• If you and all the interns behave, you will get a limo bus
• Practice your presentations
• Figure out all the shortcuts to get to places at RIT
• If you got Crossroads, get the spicy chicken sub
• If you go to Java Wallie's, get the Kinky Ragea
• Be nice to the people at the stock room, or else
• Breaking a cuvett is not a big of a deal as you think
• Make your presentation simple so normal people can understand
• Look at the map before you try to find a building
• Realize some of the computers in the Chem department are 10 minutes behind real time
• Listen to Dr. Hornak; the man is a genius
• Eat with other interns after field trips
• Never say you like physics while in the Chemistry department
• Remember to clock back in after lunch
• Get your work done
• Don't put more than one Nanotube in the NMR at once
• Get contacts if you want to participate in visual perception experiments
• Be happy you have a job at RIT and you are making money; its probably better than going back to school

Well I just wrote a lot of random stuff! But that was all I could think of right now...

So i guess I will just stop writing now. Maybe I'll update this later this year let you know how senior year is going! (or where I'm going to college)

Okey dokey then. Ta Ta for Now.

;) Gretchen E. S.

Day 34 Continued

Well I was quite brief on what we did today because I was not in a very "blogy" mood when we got back from U of R. I will expand on the day now:
Laura and I got there first and we decided to get an iced mocha at the little coffee shop in the building. We didn't know what room we had to go to, but I did know that it ended with an 08 so it was either 108, 208, 308, 408, or 508. Therefore, we decided to wait on the first floor. And it was 108 so that was lucky.
When everyone else got there we started the presentations and we alternated UofR and RIT. Dr. Pinto was being very critical of all the RIT presentation, which is a good thing so we knew what to improve. However, he did have to help some of his interns even get through their slides. *sorry for being mean*
When the pizzaa and cookies came, Nicole and I were dissappointed that we didn't get to go before lunch, but we got to go next. I think we did good. There were not many questions, except the "don't say ummm" comment from the girl who said it hereself 22+ times during her's (i counted) So we should be fine tomorrow.
After we went, the day dragged on and on and on; thus the longest day of my life!

We finally finished at 3:30! Erika and Jane followed us back to RIT and Tom almost killed us with his Jeep...and then Erika almost hit us at the 4 way stop!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well then it was 4 when we got back. And then we went home at 5:15. Oh shoot, I forgot to sign out. I'll have to eamil Joe powwwwwwww now!

:()

Day 34

Well today was the longest day of my life. We went to U of R to practice our presentations and it took form 9am-3:30pm to finish all of them. It got boring really quickly, but I guess it was good to see what the U of R interns are doing. Our presentation went great! YAYAY We feel prepared for tomorrow!

:)

Day 33

LAST DAY OF REAL WORK YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!!! :)
Well today we put the finishing touches on the power point notes, and then at 10 we showed the notes to Dr. Hornak. He had some of the wording to change. Then we went lunch for the last time at Crossroads and I bought a M&M cookie.

After lunch, Bob found us an empty room so we could practice our presentation without anyone else. We ran through it twice and then we decided we were ready to present for Dr. Hornak. He only had a few things for us to change so that was good news. Also good news, Joe Pow likes our poster and presentation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY

So that is all for the day! Tomorrow is U of R 'practice.'
:)

Day 32

We actually did something this morning other than work on the powerpoint. Dr. Hornak had us make a solution and take some measurements at different concentrations. But we were done by 10:30 so then we went back to Building 76 to the computer lab. At 11:45 I had to do another eyetracking experiment, the same one where you have to look for brain lesions. It was really boring this time...Then lunch at Crossroads= buffalo chicken sub!
We the went back to the computer lab and didn't do much. That's all for today I guess.
:)
Ohh yeah I hear laura is trying to write more than me today on her blog... i will let her win...today.

Day 31

Well well well. I am sooooooo glad this is the last week of work!!!! I didn't want to wake up this morning, but luckily Joe Pow didn't need us to change anything on our poster so that was one less thing we have to do today!

We are all done with the powerpoint, but we still don't know who is doing what slides. Since I haven't taken chemistry yet, we figured it would be a good idea if Nicole did the ones with the chem stuff on it and I will cover the background information and instrumentation. So then we started writing the scripts for each slide. I probably won't even use it once I get up on the stage because I will be too nervous to even read it, but I it helpful to have one anyways. I wonder if the U of R people think our practice on Thursday is a big deal, because they asked for our abstracts? I hope we don't have to dress up for that too...

So we had lunch at Crossroads and then went back to the computer lab. I finished the notes that go with my slides. Then we went down to the girl scout thing on the first floor. The first table we went too ironically was dealing with MRI stuff so we told the lady about our Omniscan project. And she actually knew what we were talking about, coooool.

The Xerox people in the fishbowl had a laptop with video of my robotics team when we went to the championship in Atlanta. That was weird. I didn't even know anyone was videotaping us when we were down there.We also got to see the GM Fuel Cell car outside which was really coool!

And that's about all. Yay The last Monday of work this summer! :)

Day 28: Field Trip # 4

Today was funnnnn. We went to Optimax and got to go in a limo bus like one you take to prom or a wedding. That was a lovely surprise.

Well, I'm not allowed to tell you what we actually saw at Optimax, but it was a very laid back place. Most of the workers were wearing tiedied shirts and were playig music. We got a free pop insulator, sunglasses, and a concave lens!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laura, Erika, Matt, and I were all in the same tour group. Splitting us up was a great idea because we could actually see and hear what the workers were saying.

So after we left, we went to Amiels for subs but we brought them back to RIT. We had another enjoyable lunch all together. We discussed Amish people and ficuses ( which is not the generic term for fake tree). Yeah, the food was good too, especially the cookie.

Then we went to see Dr. Hornak and he asked us to do the T1 measurements on the NMR over in Building 8. And so that's what we did for the rest of the afternoon. I'm not working the rest of the week because I have stuff to do with the fam...

:)