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May Tran - Week 8

The final week of my lab was mostly uneventful because Bing had closed for the summer. The lab had sent out requests for parents to bring their children in voluntarily for research, probably with promises of cash, and the research assistants should only show up during the times that were booked by the parents. Therefore, I had more freedom and better control of the schedule since I could show up for the allotted time rather than staying for three hours waiting for Isabel to recruit children.

This week's lab meeting was also the research assistant's turn to present their summer works. The lab meetings are usually done by the graduate students, but since most of the research assistants have programs that link to the lab (such as how I'm at the lab because of EXP) and most of us have to present for our programs, the lab thought it was a good opportunity for us to receive feedbacks and practice for future presentations. The meeting was attended by the whole lab, including the PI who I never really see. I presented with Isabel since we were testing together, and I thought it went quite well. I'm quite happy because I can recycle that powerpoint for my EXP presentation in the Fall.

We also had an end-of-summer picnic, since many of the research assistants were leaving at the end of the week (including me). We gathered out in the Stanford Oval and it was really fun talking about things other than our research. If there are EXP students who are having a hard time getting a lab, I would highly recommend the SLL to them. :)

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