If you miss 2021 and want to travel back in time, this is the best place to be!
Due to the possibility of starting an SSP pandemic, we are all masked up and socially distanced. I’m pretty sure that the antibiotic-resistant bacteria-growing genomics people have something to do with this (I’m just kidding). Other than giving us a nice throwback to how things used to be, the coronavirus also canceled our field trip to the caverns 🙁 This meant I set up an alarm for 7 am but ended up waking up at 11:30!
Some participants were diligent enough to wake up before 9:25 to catch the bus for a luxurious one-hour Target trip (a true luxury compared to the rather fast-paced trip to Walmart from last week). Unfortunately, I’m not aware of any significant purchases made on that trip, but I know people were trying on some pretty shoes there, and it seems like they had a blast.
Because of the canceled trip, today was pretty chill. It was like having a gigantic sleepover with 42 people, and we even got to be in the large theater in the Dominici building. We had all sorts of snacks and fruits that were requested yesterday, although the loss of instant ramen and bubble tea was very apparent on the table.
I don’t understand Inho’s obsession with Fanta, but he seemed very happy, so I was happy for him.
(Image credit to Inho)
Despite traumatizing memories of it from when I was ten, Interstellar was a good movie, and we enjoyed our time. Half the people were bawling their eyes out and the other half were analyzing the exaggerations that were made about scientific facts. I enjoyed the true American experience eating choc-chip cookies with way too much sugar.
Since we were supposed to be on the field trip, we got a special dinner! I couldn’t identify the difference between them and the pizzas in the dining hall, but according to Jacqueline, they are so much better. We all sat around and discussed weird ways people eat pizza. My personal favorite was Jalen, who allegedly eats his pizza upside down with the toppings on the bottom.
After a day full of movies, we’re once again back in the classroom, working on our final orbital determination code and reports.
As always, Eric is grinding on the assignments and will probably be done in a few minutes. The future of the Earth looks very promising with all these hard-working people. We sure are on track to understanding and manipulating fifth dimensional space!
If anyone happens to be on the NMSU campus, they could get some of our leftover pizza, which does look very appetizing.
I’m really excited to hear about all the interesting things my fellow colleagues are preparing for the participant talks tomorrow. On a different note, I have to go back to contributing to my team. All in all, I wish everyone a great rest of the week! I hope you have as much fun as we are having with this whiteboard chess game!
– Erin Burm 🙂
