Sunday, June 2, 2019
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Hi friends! Welcome to my blog!
We are one week into the SPS intern program, and I love it so much already.
Moving in on Sunday was only a little stressful. I have never been in a car in the middle of DC before last Sunday, and that was crazy. Most stressful 3 mile drive I've ever experienced. Since moving in the other interns and I have been hanging out a lot and we all get along really well. Memorial day was our first day all together, and we walked around the mall and saw all the sights. I still haven't gotten used to how close we live to all the amazing attractions in DC. Since Tuesday, we have been mostly at work so, I haven't gotten much more exploring done, but yesterday most of us went kayaking. You can see pictures of us doing that on Samantha's blog. She's my roommate, and we get along super well and have been doing most things together. We've been talking about how we both already love DC and want to move here someday. I'll update you if our opinions change in July when it get even hotter.
The work I have been doing has also been fun and rewarding. While I am the Niels Bohr Library intern, I have also been tasked with helping with the teaching guides that AIP has put together, and I will be focusing on those for June. In July, I will be focusing on the display cases. So, I spent this week familiarizing myself with the teaching guides. I found two that I would like to improve and I did some research and have decided on writing another teaching guide on Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. He's Chandra of Chandrasekhar's mass limit of white dwarfs. From the little bit of research I've already done, he is a pretty interesting guy.
I've loved exploring the library. It is filled with all sorts of cool old books. I mean like really old, like all the way back to some of Galileo's first books.
I'm really excited about working at the library, and I can't wait to have more fun exploring the stacks all summer long.
Catherine Ryan