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Jimmy Kim, Day 1

First day at the lab wasn’t the best. I somehow walked into 5 different buildings between 8 and 8:30 when I had to be there by 8:30. I asked about 5 different people where Dr. Caram’s office is and I finally found his office around 8:40, which was 10 minutes late. I explained to him how I had a hard time finding it and he said it was fine. Dr. Caram was really nice and enthusiastic about everything. After giving me a basic tour around the lab, it was around 9 and he said he needs to go teach a class. So he basically left me in the lab space with nothing and I was just alone. Other people started to show up around 9:30. I tried to talk to a lot of them. Our group consists of 8 people. Tim, the graduate student that I have to shadow or the student that will give me the most help with, helped me download Labview, the coding program used here, on my computer. Even though I did some tutorials before I came here, I still didn’t know how to do 99.9% of the things on here. My graduate student gave me two simple yet really difficult tasks for me to do. It took me about an hour and a half to do it. I felt really stupid and I just feel like I am such a burden to this group rather than a help. But, when I finished my task, I was really happy and I felt accomplished. After all these simple coding tasks I feel like I learned a lot too. Also, I attended my first lab group meeting which consisted of two presentations from the students. To be honest, I didn’t understand anything, but it was a valuable experience because I got to know most of the people in the group.

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  1. speretzJune 6, 2018 at 7:20 PM

    Glad you finally found the right office! I am sure your labview skills will quickly improve! (You can always work on that in the evenings if you feel like your lack of ability is hindering your ability to be helpful to the lab!)

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