A lot happened in the 2nd week of the REU. Firstly, my mentor has been really supportive, and even though he’s very busy he still makes time to show me how to do tasks. On Thursday he gave me a heads up that he’ll be busy most if not all of Friday so he gave me 12 acid samples to encapsulate in capillaries and 7 pictures of each sample (10 if you count the 2 blanks and unpolarized picture). I have to do it by Tuesday and so far I have a bit over half done. He clearly expects a lot from me and I will not let him down. For my friends it’s been good, everyone is so busy but every now and then we meet up to eat lunch or just talk during our break, it’s nice to have a break from the very professional environment that is the labs and do something more laid back. In addition, I was able to visit Ms. Umezakis’s lab on Friday, everyone was so nice and I was able to see and then conduct various experiments, I was there for around an hour or an hour and a half. It certainly didn’t feel long, as I was constantly asked questions and I was also always asking about the methods and machines. Overall there’s a lot of work that needs to be done and a lot more papers that I need to read and understand, hopefully, I’ll have a smooth week for the upcoming week 3.