The Final Week

I last posted this weekend. Since then, it has been a very busy few days.

Monday morning I began my day with a run around the forested trails by RIMAC. We spent the day in the lab, where I finished up the final pieces of my discovery project (Embedded Building Sensors) and continued work on the final project. For the final project, I am making a dual octave piano keyboard with Erick R. After a long day in the lab, I headed back to ERC. That night, I didn't do any particular activity, I mostly went between the activites and chilled with some other COSMOS people.

Tuesday morning I was lazy and I did not wake up in time for running. I should have ran though, for it would be a long day working in the lab in front of a computer. We had our final discovery lecture that morning. It was very interesting, a former aerospace engineer and now a UCSD professor spoke about space, specifically satellite delivery systems, along with the future of the technologies. Following the lecture, we finished up our trifold posters for the individual discovery project. That afternoon, we spent some more time in the lab and made a few breakthroughs...which were definitely needed as our program is nearing its end. Last night, I played in the COSMOS basketball tournament. Unfortunately, my team was no comparison to the opponents, and we lost pretty badly in the first round. Regardless, it was fun to play and watch and intense game play going on.

Today, Wednesday, I forced myself to wake up and go running. We ran around the UCSD campus towards the southern end. This morning we got some more work done on the piano keyboard and we obtained some of the components that would be necessary for the project.
JR