7/31/14 Kelly Pesta

Today was another slow day. This morning I cleaned the GC vials from my extractions and cleaned the contained we put the GSR samples from last night in so there was no GSR transferred from the outside of the container to anything else we touch. After that  I worked on my paper and poster the rest of the morning and continued working on it after lunch. When Leah came in at about 4:00 we got my first sample (revolver 1) and took it down to the SEM to start scanning it over night so I can look at the results tomorrow. Leah should be in tomorrow afternoon so I'll be able to start to look at the results. We're going to run another sample tomorrow night and Leah is going to run a couple more of my samples over the weekend so I can at least start adding some of the results to my paper and poster so I'm finished by Thursday. Monday I have to run my samples on the SEM on my own because Leah won't be in. But hopefully by Wednesday we'll have all my samples ran through the SEM and we can extract them Wednesday and put them in the LC/MS and get results Thursday morning and add the last minute results to both my poster and paper so my poster will be finished by Friday. I'm running out of time so I'm hoping our plans work out. Wish me luck.

July 30, Summary

    I worked mostly on my research paper and almost got my introduction done.  I have a lot to add on, and yet I have very little time.  However I was able to run my step 5 files for para-fluorobenzamidine with gsbp so now I just to work on my paper in the meantime and hope that they are done before the paper is due.

7.79-31.14

I worked on my research paper .

7/30/14 Kelly Pesta

Yesterday morning went slow. I continued working on my paper. In the afternoon I worked on my poster. When Leah came in Dr.Wetzel took us to the shooting range to take samples off of their hands after they shot the guns. After that we came back to duquesne and Leah showed me how to use the SEM again. Today I am going to clean the vials I used from the extractions and start running my samples on the SEM.

URP Symposium Experience-Cheyeanne Perez

              The symposium was a wonderful experience.i loved it. It was a wonderful experience to be able to answer all of the questions other had on my project, and I knew exactly what the answers were. I had a lot of people walk up to me and seam interested in my project. At first i was really nervous but then I got over it when I saw other people who were nervous too. The speakers were wonderful, they really knew what to say when they were talking about their projects. I understood most of what they were saying even though some of it I was completely lost. My mom and brother came up and saw me present at first but then they left, but they thought it was really cool how I have been learning new things and spending my summer at a real college. Over all i think the symposium was a wonderful thing that I am so happy to have been a part of, I learned things, I met people, and I learned to be more confident in my work because I am the expert about what I have done.

Summary July 30th, 2014

Today I finished up what i needed to before my meeting with Dr. Wheeler. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. He gave me a list of things to change and add and a way to create more space by two categories.
I also am planning activities for our trip to San Francisco! I found an open-top bus tour for only $45. It shows us everything, from downtown, the golden gate bridge, the "Painted Ladies", everything. I'm so excited.
So, I'm going to make the changes to my poster and start my paper!
Until tomorrow, SEED!

Summary July 29th, 2014

Yesterday I couldn't do very much. I spent the morning putting my data in graphs and finding room for all of it on my ACS poster. I ran out of room though, so when I meet with Dr. Wheeler today, I hope he tells me that I can take some background information off of it. It is comprised of, give or take, 75% background information, and 15% data. I did research on the Arrhenius equation during the afternoon, something I should have done a long time ago, but neglected to because I didn't think I needed to know it. I was wrong. Today I'm going to hopefully start my paper and have my poster finished by this afternoon.