I have enjoyed my internship experience this summer. Tom is a really wonderful person and was a lot of fun to work with these past few weeks. On a typical day at SAMSI I would work on my curriculum product and if I had a meeting scheduled with Tom it would be about 2 hours long. The meetings were always… Read more »
I am not going to lie…I was definitely worried that our #kfpchat was going to be a one time deal. The second week I tried to host it, so many of the fellows were all out to dinner together that it just didn’t make sense to even try. I got discouraged and thought people weren’t as into the idea as… Read more »
Creating a product from my internship experience started out quite easy. My mentor and I spent the first two working meetings going through all of the ideas we could investigate and working through the physics of it all. We started big and whittled it down to smaller pieces. My internship experience has followed a different pattern than a lot of… Read more »
When Twitter first came out I was vehemently against joining up. I’m not sure why, but I guess I just didn’t have any interest in yet another social media platform. I think that’s completely understandable. Who really needs to know what I’m thinking 24/7? Twitter made it so easy to update anyone and everyone on what was going on in… Read more »
SAMSI is a wonderful place to work. It is the right amount of calm and chaotic! When they are hosting workshops or conferences there are a lot of people in and out learning or presenting about the latest data driven research. During the school year when they have grad students conducting research here I’m sure it is even busier! Part… Read more »
I have a lot of goals when it comes to my Kenan Fellows Internship, but if I were to boil them all down they could fit into these three main goals: Learn how to code in Octave. Acquire an understanding of SAMSI day to day work. Create a project that has real world applications and community involvement. 1. Being able to… Read more »
I don’t consider myself a creative person unless I have come up with an idea pretty early on. That’s when I basically run with it and it becomes a pretty extensive and elaborate idea. In this case, I think I’ve jumped off the deep end with my project idea, but in a good way! I started off with a general… Read more »