This is the third week of my internship. That’s 504 hours, or 30,240 minutes, or 1,814,400 seconds spent as an SPS intern. A lot of progress has been made on our project. Our group is mostly just plugging along, going through the lesson plans a second time.
This week at NASA I was able to do some real science! I began working with a computer program to analyze data of solar wind. In particular, we are looking for density structures in the wind that are periodic.
This week was a roller coaster of busy schedules and deadlock within the House of Representatives and it ended up also containing several very large changes of pace for me.
Alright, so another exciting week has come to an end. I knew from the beginning that this experience would pass quickly, but I never imagined that it would be this fast! This weekend I drove home in order to see my parents. They had many questions for me ranging from work to extracurricular ac