Victor Cruz Week 6

Sorry for the late submission, last week was a handful. We only had 3 days due to 4th of July, Joe was very busy again so me and Frank (the Teacher intern) started working on our own plan. Frank and I are helping each other in designing a poster together since they follow similar design philosophies, except his project focuses on BNNTs reaction with temperature while mine is with acidic concentration. It’s a huge help since we both give each other feedback on how BNNTs should be described to people who know nothing about it or test each other the knowledge in the progress. It’s more like a peer review more than anything. I did have some obstacles in my samples such as my yield being WAY too little. I had to start over from scratch but Joe was understanding and helpful. I Ended up going to the Lab on Friday even though it wasn’t necessary and on Saturday, since I felt like I needed to work on my setbacks, I feel a lot more confident and I’m sure Joe will be happy with the result. It was kinda scary on Saturday since it started to rain HARD but thankfully it calmed down by 5 ish so I was able to leave safely. Finally, the hurricane was scary, I am in the Seabrook area so it hit very hard and my power went out fairly early, unfortunately. Thankfully everyone is ok and I am excited for more time in the lab.