Week 1: May 30-June 3

All this week, I have enjoyed walking to the Computer Science and Engineering Building. I have been introduced to the lab, worked on some assignments on a Crash Course and with the help of Eli and Brandon, I have been able to familiarize myself with the terminal.



Monday May 30, 16 -

• I arrived at College Station

Tuesday May 31-

• Attended a Welcome Breakfast for all summer interns.
• Met with Read and Diane, was introduced to the office and to the rest of the Parasol Team. I was also given a key to the lab.
• Interacted with the rest of the interns while waiting to be given my Username and Password in order to accest the lab's computers
• Began on Lesson 0 of a Crash Course and read Nancy’s Expectations for Her Students.
• I soon began Lesson 1 of Crash Course

Wednesday June 1-

• Attended Chinwe’s and Jory’s defense. (Both very informative.)
• Began reading the two research papers in Lesson 1
• Began familiarizing myself with the Terminal and Linux with the help of Diane.
• Read “An Introduction to the Linux Command Shell For Beginners” to understand Linux commands.
• Ended Lesson 1 and began on Discussion Questions of Lesson 1 on Crash Course.
• Began on Lesson 2 of Crash Course

Thursday June 2-

• Finished the Discussion Questions on Crash Course.
• Attended Lunch hosted by the Computer Science and Engineering Building (Thanks to Mrs. Roberts)
• Ended Lesson 2 and began answering Discussion Questions of Lesson 2.
• Began Lesson 3.
• Discussed questions with Read, Diane and the rest of my co-workers.
• Began reading new assignments from Lesson 3.

Friday June 3-

• Finished reading assignments from Lesson 3. (Astonished by the type of model that was built, the experiments conducted, and the results obtained.)
• Continued on Lesson 3
• Began programming the creates (Multi-Agent systems).
• Worked on Weekly Report.

Goals for next week:

• Finish Lesson 3
• Successfully program the creates.
• Become comfortable with asking and accepting help from the PhD students.