One week left of my internship here at Rice University. I have done so much in the last ten weeks. I do wish the internship was longer, because it looks like I won’t be able to finish my research and then I won’t have access to the lab anymore. I did get a lot of research done though, and it’s enough for me to present it.

Most of my week I had spent it finalizing my poster draft, considering the suggestion from my peers, faculty and advisor. I realized that it was difficult to simplify the information on my poster, because I had done so much over the summer. I managed to put almost everything on the poster. The main components, and I got creative and designed my own figures, and plots. That was fun. I learned how to code the scripts and plot them in MATLAB, a computing platform.

With the help of my mentor, I conducted some experiments again to verify the data was accurate,

interpreted the data, and finalized it for my poster. Results and conclusions look good. Now it’s just a matter of explaining my research briefly. I am a little unsure about the technical aspects of my research, so next week, I will spend most of my time going over the articles I used for my research to solidify any gaps in my knowledge. As well as practice the elevator speech and attempt to condense all my research into sixty seconds.

I will say I am a bit nervous but also excited to present at the symposium next week.

-Adrian