Today, Amy was sick and didn't come to work.  Lindsay was back though.  Maria and I started working on programming this morning first thing.  She was working on creating C code to take the data from the GPIB device and generate a text file output from that listing all the data.  I was creating a Matlab program which would then take that text file and create a plot of the data, and possibly a file with the data arranged nicely in a user friendly format. 

This took a good while, because all the different routes the program can take make it slightly complicated.  Maria finished her program just before lunch.  After lunch, Maria and I had to talk to Hong Hou (one of the grad. students we'll be working with when we start the optoelectronics part of the project) about the kinds of tests we'll be doing with his photodiode chips.  This took until 4 pm, which was when Maria had to leave for the day.  Lindsay left when Maria and I started working with the optoelectronics stuff because she and Amy will be working more with integrated circuits.

Earlier in the day, Pamela had given us reading to do before our weekly RISE meeting (which was moved until tomorrow so that everyone would be there).  So I decided that I could just come back to my apartment for the day since everyone else had left and do the reading and maybe work on finishing up the matlab program here in the comfort of my room!  :)

So that's what I've been doing.  I'm going to also try and get a good read in tonight as well.  BTW, we got the books for the RISE 'book club' on Monday (the book we have to read for the RISE program).  I'm reading The Hornet's Nest which is a sort of autobiography by Missy Cummings, one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots.  Its basically just about her life and struggles in the Navy.  Its quite long (for a required reading for a summer research internship in engineering I wasn't expecting something more than 200 pages), almost 400 pages.  But amazingly, I've flown through reading it.  Its not a difficult read at all, and I'm hoping to finish by the end of the weekend (actually I'd really like to finish by the end of tomorrow, but with work and then my habit of watching tv for so long in the evening... I'm going to be more realistic in my goal setting!).