Monday: Today I continued reading on implementing the goodness metric using FFT. I’ve been working on this for the longest, but that’s because I had lost motivation previously. I am good now though! I analyzed deeper in the reading and I’m finally starting to understand it. I also used chat GPT to break down and explain sections of the paper. I was really struggling to stay focused with all the words and phrases that are above my level.

Tuesday: Today I worked on implementing what I learned yesterday, uploading it to Anaconda (a computer program) and graphing it. It did not go as planned. After 4 hours of trying to figure out the right coding, I was beginning to feel very tired and decided to go home.

Wednesday: I FINALLY figured out how to find peaks using scipy! This is the step before finding goodness metric. After days of trying to figure this out, I feel accomplished. It was stressful, and it honestly brought me down. I was losing motivation. But I’m glad to know that I will be sleeping happily tonight.

Thursday: Today I focused on finding the goodness metric. It was a challenge, but not as bad as finding the peaks. I asked Rachel for help, and the fact that even she had trouble shows that coding can be hard… and she’s a computer science major!! (I am not hating on her skills). Aside from that, I had a successful day (: I found the goodness metric and calculated the heart rate. I sent my coding to Matt, and we’ll see what he says tomorrow during our meeting.

Friday (writing it on Sunday): I had my meeting with Matt and Rachel, and he was glad to know that I figured out the heart rate. He gave me two assignments, and when I was going to start working on them, I accidentally ruined my laptop.

Here’s what happened: I was going to ride my scooter to go to the Rice store, so I put my water cup in my satchel (did not take my backpack that day). Everything was fine, made sure my bag was always standing so the water wouldn’t spill. But once I arrived back at the BRC, I laid down my bag on the desk and totally forgot about it. Once I opened my bag, I see my computer in a puddle of water… I cried.

I bought a 10lb bag of rice and stuffed my laptop inside (for 2 days). I then went to Micro Center with my boyfriend and his friends, and they helped me find a new laptop (I love it!).