Day 25

Wow, two more weeks left, I'm surprised at how fast this internship has gone by. The next two weeks will most likely be very busy with us typing up our posters and creating our power point presentations that I won't even notice when they are over. Most people ask me why I would want to spend my summer working 40 hours a week. In a way, today at the Louise Slaughter building where the undergraduates were doing all of their presentations, my question was answered when a man, whose name escapes me, reminded everyone why they were there. Sometime, somewhere in their lives everyone of those undergraduates decided that they cared about what they were researching (passion) and put in the hours and the effort, the hard work, all for what? In a way I didn't even need an answer for that question, it's the reason I go to school everyday, to run all year round instead of just for the season, it's why I continue to practice my clarinet throughout the summer. The satisfaction, the hard work gives an unbelievable high, it is why I continue to reach for my goals and be the best I can. Anyways, that doesn't mean I don't like to have fun, so, TGIF!
The presentations were fairly good, I thought the groups from the astronomical department were exceptionally good. I could see a lot of the undergrads do the same things they warn us about throughout high school like talking too fast when you get nervous, unnecessary pacing, and over-exaggerated hand movements. The undergrads in our department practiced yesterday (with us as their audience) and seemed very calm when they actually presented. When Brad and Bryan presented there were about three professors in the room who fired what sounded to me like really hard questions, they answered a few of them coolly and the ones they didn't know they simply told them that they could figure it out. I hope I can present just as well on the 22nd, which is only 2 weeks from now!!! haha, okay, I'm done, see ya!