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This week has been a combination of all sorts of lovely events. Missing my last project/team. Searching for a new. Finding and participating my new one. My cousin coming to visit SF for the weekend from Seattle. Learning and basically getting ALL of my questions answered about flight traffic control and weather conditions relating. And trust me I have a ton of questions. Trying to get a joke about dartmouth or engineering or helicopters (if you have one PLEASE tell me, it's a requirement of this… Continue

This week was my favorite so far. I was called upon to solder every time they needed someone because I am the "expert!" No, kidding, but I did get plenty of practice in. And we had to give a final presentation which was interesting for me because I haven't been there from the beginning. But I went along with it and realized most of the work had actually been done in the last two weeks, while I was there. So that was good to hear. My laser board ended up working perfectly, as did the work on the… Continue

This past week I have been at Carnegie Mellon University west at NASA Ames. There are about eight interns working on different aspects of a Mars rover. Right now we are working on the finishing touches because this is their last week. The finishing touches include a robotic arm, a soil collector, and a laser pointer. Some of the programming they are doing is beyond me, but going into this, they didn't know what they were doing either, which made me feel a little bit more confident.
I am learning… Continue

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