Intern Blog Postings

Week 4: Science, Receptions, and Politics

Friday, June 28, 2013

Nikki Sanford

It’s been another eventful week here in the nation’s capital! In the committee office, all of the staff and us interns were working to prepare for two hearings and a markup of the National Windstorm Reduction Act.

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Week 2: Getting Used to Life in DC

Friday, June 28, 2013

Fiona Muir

My second week in DC has flown by, a huge amount of reading, quite a bit of writing and still managing to find some time to have fun!

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Week 3: I Broke Physics

Friday, June 21, 2013

Jamie Garrett

Time is flying by here in DC. It feels like there are not even 24 hours in a day. The National Symphony Orchestra made me feel cultured. It was fun to get dressed up and go out as a complete group.

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Week 2: All Work and all play

Friday, June 21, 2013

Christine O'Donnell

As cliché as it sounds, it’s incredibly amazing to think this is already the end of the second week. My calendar seemed to be less packed with activities, and yet the time flew by even faster.

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Week 3: Music

Friday, June 21, 2013

Jose "Ro" Avila

That concert was good! However, I like faster pieces… Week 3 has passed, and I would say this was the music week, since I had the opportunity to attend several concerts-presentations.

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Week 2: Rockets, sensors, and lasers, Oh My!

Friday, June 21, 2013

Nicole Quist

Friday we ended up not going to the outdoor concert because it was raining so much. Instead we went to an Ethiopian Restaurant called Etete. They had these really good appetizers that were like Indian Samosas.

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Week 3: From MATLAB to Modeling; from Home to DC

Friday, June 21, 2013

Alexandra Day

The big highlight of my third week as an SPS intern was moving into one of the dorms at GW with all of the other interns. It’s so neat to be in DC! The Lincoln Memorial is right down the street, and we’re close to the metro.

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Week 3: The Darren, The Data, and The Fixed Code

Friday, June 21, 2013

Darren McKinnon

Ahh… IT access. Work was finally moving along. The Eta Car group had me working with a new program they were hoping to use to get a new angle on their research.

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Week 3: Week of the Virulent Culture

Friday, June 21, 2013

Caleb Heath

We are on the move!

Our second outreach event of the season, at Tuckahoe Elementary, was scheduled for Tuesday. We had been planning ways to test a few of our activities. Three forty-five minute time blocks, about forty students in each block. Christine, Jamie, and Ro were coming out to help Nicole, Toni, and I; there would be a few teachers. Nice and manageable.

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Week 2: Photoblog of the Duties of a Science Committee Intern

Friday, June 21, 2013

Katherine Stankus

For my second week working for the Science Committee, I decided to create a photo blog to better illustrate what my duties are as an intern (available on the sidebar on the right).

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