Third Day

It's almost the end of my third day in this internship and yet again it's taking forever for the files to copy over into my folder now. While it was creeping along this morning all of the computers in the lab decided that they needed an update and were going to shut-down within five minutes. When we got back from our "coffee" break where barely anyone drinks coffee the computer had logged off and I had to start back from earlier this morning with copying files from the desktop to my folder. In my exuberant amount of spare time I read more about idl and took notes of important things I thought I'd need for adding color to the images. Things got better as the day went on because although I couldn't work with Greg's data to create color in the images I was able to work with Kevin, another intern who is working on the same project but with star clusters instead of galaxies. We spent the afternoon trying to figure out how to put color in the images, and what codes to use in the idl program. When we finally figured out how to create an image that had some color to it we ran across a little problem like saving it with no convenient save button. Well, it's now 4:40 pm and my computer has just finished copying the files that I need!!! I can't really work on much only because I have to go to a meeting on the third floor at 5 but hey, it's finally done!!! So, I'm going to finish up this blog and hopefully have more to talk about tomorrow seeing how I'll be able to work with the files instead of occupy myself while they copy in their own sweet time. Which means that tomorrow you might have more to read about my life as an intern, until then, see ya.