This week Julie, Erica, Natalie, and I all started to set up the crab lab for Julie’s ocean acidification grant. I learned how to install ground wires to make sure the tanks aren’t generating an electrical current that could possibly hurt someone or the crabs. This was way out of my comfort zone, but was a great learning experience. I don’t think I have ever used half of the tools we used during this process. At first, I was really hesitant to work with power tools and now I feel like a pro. Going in to week five I feel like I’m running out of fears to conquer and it feels nice. Julie has helped me work through some of the things that I thought I would never be able to do. There was a lot of errand running this week to get all the parts for our open tank lab. Erica is a scientist working in the Galloway lab and she is amazing. She took Hannah and I to a few places to eat in downtown Coos Bay. One was a Mediterranean restaurant and the other was a Thai restaurant. She also helped us learn how to shop for parts for our experiment and learn that everyday items can be used in science. Proposals were due this week and I was extremely nervous, but am so glad that I finished. I felt like everything went really well and can’t wait to put all my data together at the end and see my results. My cousins are visiting this weekend and I’m super excited. I want to show them all the beautiful spots we have found. It will be nice to see people from home; I have been missing all my family lately. There is the Oregon Coast Music Festival this weekend and I think all the REUs want to go. It’s nice to finally have a free weekend with nothing to do except things we plan. It feels like we have been super busy for four weeks straight and I’m ready for a little break. Who knows maybe I’ll even sleep this weekend? Tune in next week to find out if I get the rest I desperately need.
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