This week was quite unexpected to say the least. I was not expecting to have lost a week’s worth of time towards my project but that is what happened. I am glad and thankful to have survived the storm without significant damages. I chose to stay home for the entirety of the week because I live an hour away from the campus and it didn’t seem safe to make the trip when many parts of town still were without electricity and water, especially when my mentor was affected as such.

This hurricane really made me question the fast-paced society we live in, and how, everything will be back to normal a month from now even though it will feel like we are behind of where we should be.

Because I have just three weeks left in this internship, my goal is to streamline my focus in the lab so that I can obtain useful data for comparison. I knew going into this that the work I would do would not be robust because of the time constraint, but now it really feels like there is a rush to the finish line. Regardless, there has been much learned, and there is still more to learn, so I will be looking forward to that.