June 4 to June 8

There were IDL tutorials this week with John and Marika, and we ended the week with mini projects on making movie animations using SSWIDL. I also met with my mentor, Dr. Qiu. We discussed the project that I am going to be working on this summer involving data analysis using the RHESSI spacecraft. I read through the HESSI GUI guide and worked on getting familiar with the software. I had a lot of errors while using the HESSI GUI, one of which Dr. Qiu helped me solve after we realized the date and time used were data points that were not available due to the attenuator being configured. I just have to be careful with times and dates to make sure the images work!

Weekend

The weekend started out with Nicole, Courtney, and I getting dinner at Sweet Chili. After getting ice cream at Genuine Ice Cream Co. and while walking back to Courtney's car, we were caught in a downpour. There ended up being a double rainbow! On Saturday, the solar and ECE REU groups went on a joint Yellowstone day trip on Saturday! Some of the places we stopped at were Old Faithful, Grand Prismatic Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, and Artist’s Point. It was all so beautiful and made me really happy to have come to Bozeman this summer. Then, on Sunday, Nicole and I went white-water rafting. I was terrified at first, but it ended up being really fun and the water was pretty calm. We actually ended up on the same raft as a bunch of actors and actresses from Shakespeare in the Parks, and they were so kind and funny.