What Week Is This?

Really, I've lost count of how long I've been at NASA. Anyways......I've already explained my research in enough detail I think so now I'll delve into the other duties of a NASA intern. Whenever anyone needs help with something they usually have to ask an intern for help first. This accomplishes a few things: we gain competence in more than just our research field, we get opportunities to get out of the office, and the real NASA employees may not have to work as hard. This doesn't mean I get to fetch coffee for a bunch of lazy engineers. Thing's I've got to help with: calibration of a laser measurement system, help paint our new office (we have to vacate our current office to make room for a visitor, a test pilot if I'm not mistaken), attempt to fix an anemometer (measures the wind speed), and place silver dollar sized retro reflectors on the UH-60A blades that are being tested in the wind tunnel.

I also got the opportunity to go a metrology (not meteorology) seminar about uncertainty. I could go into how to determine the uncertainty that arises from multivariate measurements (the end result is determined by multiple measurements, for example the volume of a cylinder is dependant by the area of the base and the height), but I'm fairly certain no one wants me to type up the entire textbook I was given and expected to read through and to be able to apply.

-David

P.S. (sorry for all the parenthetical statments)