Summer Work

For this summer, I applied to 10 research programs at various universities and other institutions across the country. So far, I have been rejected from two, waitlisted at one, and accepted to one: a materials research REU at Cornell University, through the Cornell Center for Materials Research.

And SO: I will be going to Cornell. :)

I'll be spending 10 weeks of my summer in Ithaca, doing materials research with a research group who named their private supercomputing cluster the TARDIS (which just makes me so happy). I'm exTREMEly excited. First of all, I've never done any kind of physics research! And I've been leaning towards materials science for a while. Second, I'll be going to another university, which is totally exciting. Third, I'll be getting paid! (But we'll see about that. Some of the money that they're using to pay me will be going towards my food.)

Anyway, I'll be updating this blog more when I'm at Cornell, and then maybe give the link to more people so they can see how I'm doing over there. Which might end up being really boring but we'll see.

Their bus website is not very user-friendly. Do not like. But maybe I'm just so used to the CU buses I'm resisting the change.

And! There's a bus that can take me to the equestrian center! I don't know if they'll stop there, but that would be nice. I would probably have lots of time on the weekends to spend there. It looks like a really fancy place. It's actually owned by the university, and the equestrian team is also a club team (like Illinois'). I thought riding over the summer might be too much to hope for, but it looks totally possible! And I'm living right next to the rec center (which I would only use for biking, probably). The pool is a little harder to get to, so we'll see.

Anyway. I'm excited, and I'll be using this blog to document my time there.

Until then: break is over. Back to the real world.