Being Productive Today

Today I slept in a little later because I shaved last night, made lunch, and packed everything. I got up at 7:30 AM and left the house at 8. Today we had a lecture on what to do with our data and then we worked with excel on some XRR data. I though about how I could of made a MATLAB script which could of done all the calculation for me. If I work with the XRR this summer, I will make one so I won’t have to do those tedious calculations again. After that, we got let in the lab early to do more work before our presentation tomorrow. We did lithography, XPS, Raman, and started putting our data together. We discover something interesting happening to our solution when it WASN’T heated and made into a thin film. Their was an extra bump on the UV-Vis, which I think is because thermodynamics is pushing the decomposition of a certain species, so it is present when we don’t heat it and spin the films. All of other data is actually lining up with it. This is the stuff that gets me excited to be a scientist. I had to work a little later to get the PowerPoint together. The training is almost over. After this week, I just need X-Ray safety training and then start working on my paper/project.

We took a group picture together today with bandannas, which was pretty silly. But remember, it's all for science! Here's me with my pretty bandanna! :D