Broken

The gold sputterer has been broken for a week.

The ellipsometer has been broken since Friday. 

No gold means no experiments. 

No experiments means no progress. 

And there are only three weeks left, so I have to do something. I can't just waste time. 

So today I reinforced my steam slide, because when cardboard gets wet, it get soggy and then my steam slide would get destroyed. So I spent two hours this morning wrapping it in packing tape. It seems to be working pretty well. 

So excited!

I was really excited about what I did today and no one else was. So hopefully y'all are. 

I needed a more consistent way to put water on my gold chips, so I acquired a dehumidifier. But that shoots the water vapor up, and I needed it to shoot down. So naturally, I modified it. 

The following pictures are of the modified dehumidifier and some of my results. 

Today

Today has pretty well so far. Unfortunately, I do not know what to do next.

Research Probs. 

Time.

Before I got here, 10 weeks seemed like forever.

Now 10 weeks seems entirely too short. 

While there are some members if this REU that I will probably never talk to again, there are others that I will miss dearly and who I fear will not think twice about me once we all go our separate ways. 

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to meet these people.