S-STEM/TRAIN Scholar Jasmine Patricio

This week has been very stressing, all these deadlines are really killing me. My eyes are becoming very dim day by day from staring at a computer screen for too long. Though my organizational skills have really kept me on track with everything and made sure everything is getting done at its right time. This research paper was the hardest paper I have ever had to write. Maybe because when i could look up some research the articles were always so hard to understand because of the big words and having to open up tabs from tabs to clarify what exactly I was reading. While I also went over my paper with Josh he pointed out that if I didn’t know some words he would best recommend me to have a flash card and identify key vocabulary that I don't know incase question about certain would be asked by the audience on presentation day. Other than that I have just been working on my conclusions this past week, but it keeps asking for graphs in each part and I don’t want to repeat and repeat the ...

This week has been full of stress, from project, finals and deadlines. I went to Dreamy Catch Mountain with two other interns; Barierane and Nathan, Josh and Matt. We went out geocaching. At first I had no idea what that meant until Josh explained that it is kind of like treasure hunting. We downloaded an app on our phones and it tells you where some of the items are, so it is up to you to go up the mountain and explore it until you come along it. What is hidden is usually something really small that has been passed on from other people who have found it. You put something inside of it to leave and sign your name and date that you found it and then put it back so that other may find it too and repeat the process. We found one treasure put our names on it and then headed back. But during the hike Josh and Matt pointed out some information about the flowers, birds and what the algae on the rock represents. So throughout the hike we learned something new about everything.