Tuesday, July 8, 2008

First Impressions

I'm now settled into my dorm room here on campus. Things are different living with a roommate and sleeping on a bunk-bed. The schedule here is jam-packed and we have many lectures to attend: ones about our cluster topic (mine is about lasers, light, and optics) discovery lectures done by guest speakers on subjects pertaining to science and technology, or lectures about scientific communications and writing. We were assigned the primary project that each lab group will be focusing on today. I will be designing a "monochromator" with three other students, a device that analyzes a liquid by projecting light through it and then splitting the light into different colors in order to tell which colors have been absorbed by the liquid. We have to write a report and make a presentation on it soon.

Luckily there are also many fun events planned for us here too. There will be a COSMOS "olympics", and i will participate in the water balloon toss. Today i got to play soccer and tomorrow there will be a bonfire. On Saturday we will go to Knotts Berry Farm and on Sunday we will visit the beach. So as you can see, I've been very busy, but things have been fun.

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