This week with research, I finished the poster. I started to work on the poster last week, so this week I continued to work on it pretty consistently. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to conduct too many more experiments, but I conducted a couple more just to get a little more general idea of my data, which also helped me change the poster a little bit. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to try everything that I want to include in my poster. I notice that this limitation comes with the nature of poster presentations, but I think I can still conduct more experiments just out of curiosity. This post will be short because not many interesting things happened this week. I was mainly just working on the poster, but the feedback loop of going to my mentor, my pi, and the REU program has helped me make the poster better, so I’m glad I had so much support while making it.

Working on the poster also means that the program is almost over. We just have one more week, but I feel pretty good. I’m happy with how I conducted the project, but I wish I got better results that seemed more promising for making a novel or interesting improvement to the device. I accept what it is and I think it’s still good to know the information that came out of it. I really enjoyed the experience still. It is pretty sad that the REU is ending also because summertime is ending and I’ll be starting school pretty much instantly. I am transferring to Rice, so I am pretty nervous but kind of excited.