Second Day

So today was pretty laid back, after having our morning meeting at 9, us interns got together with the undergrad students who would be working with us and sharing their research. A lot of my day was spent copying Greg's (the undergraduate who I'll be learning from) files onto the desktop in hopes of copying them to my folder so I can use them. Although I didn't really get to accomplish a whole lot because the computer spent the day copying the files, I did get to read up on idl, or interactive data language. It's basically a program that I will be using for the next couple of weeks to display images of galaxies and modify the images by combining different color schemes. Hopefully by tomorrow it will be done copying the files and then I can transfer them to my folder and actually start learning how to use the program.

My other job is the Timekeeper, so I make sure that everyone checks the time and isn't late to their meetings. Everyday we have an 11 o'clock coffee break. On Tuesdays the digital imaging group has a meeting from 1-2 and then the digital immersion group (the cube group) has a meeting from 2-3. I'm still trying to figure out when everything is happening but I think I'm getting the hang of it, should think of making an hourly calender.

Mostly I'm just occupying myself and helping out here and there while I wait for everything to copy and then I'm hoping that I'll be able to create some beautiful images of some galaxies.