Today was my first official fully day as the REU assistant in the Physics department at PSU. It has been quite exciting and very busy. I havn’t work a full 8 hour shift in a long time since I have been in school for ages and that makes life less orderly and more chaotic. I was worried it might drag a little but actually I have had enough adventures to keep me quite busy and now that I am an hour away from getting off, I finally get to sit at my desk and recuperate a little. My lunch break was officially 15 minutes long because students needed directions and pictures needed to be taken.

I learned some interesting things about Electron Microscopy, had a flying spider land on my arm (no I did not scream but I really wanted to) and got to listen to a conversation with a professor who spoke mostly French and was trying to explain scientific data that I was clueless about.