So today was a weird day. I knew that we were going to be doing a kinetics study on the NMR with a Copper, Gadodiamide, and H2O solution. Basically, we are seeing how the solution changes with time. However, when we got to building #8, I was expecting the solutions to be laid out in the NMR room; but they weren't. So, Dr. Hornak came to the rescue and helped us get started.
For the first hour, we had to measure the solution as many times as possible. About every 5 minutes, we took another reading. So while Nicole was over in Building 70, participating in an experiment, I ran the NMR.
When she came back, it was my turn to go over there. I kinda went into the wrong building at first because there are two buildings over there with semi-circle entrances, but I eventually got to the right sopt. The point of the experiment was to track my eye as I searched for lesions that looked like tiny circles in images of a brain. It took about 20 minutes and she asked me to come back at the end of the summer for a similar test.
So then we went to lunch at Java Wally's and Laura attempted to teach Nicole and I how to play Euchre. ( ha ha) Unfortunately, we ran out of time to master that card game But we had to be back in the lab by 1:00 because we have to measure the sample on-top of the hour, every hour. That's annoying. We also are doing the same kind of kinetics study with the Copper, Gadodiamide, and water on the diode array to see if we get similar results. Except for the first hour, we are doing it EVERY MINUTE... yeah that's just buckets of funnnnnn! So basically we will have 60 data points from the first hour and then a few more for the rest of the day.
So the rest of the day went like this: every hour we, measured the solution in the NMR. Then we tried to keep ourselves busy... and that's all.
:)
So the rest of the day went like this: every hour we, measured the solution in the NMR. Then we tried to keep ourselves busy... and that's all.
:)
