I woke up this morning the same as usual the only thing out
of the ordinary was a feeling of slight sadness in the air. The cafeteria was
quitter than usual. I ate breakfast with my RC room. We finished breakfast fast
and walked over to class. We talked about how we would miss each other because
we knew the day we part ways and got back to our regular lives was upon us.
This was the case especially for Johnny he was leaving Friday night because his
parents were picking him up early. We got to class and we went straight into
our groups we were split into four groups.
I liked the people in my group and we had Peter as our
chaperone for our tour of the engineering department so it was even more fun
since he is indeed a funny guy. Before I knew it we had finished our tour. We
learned about a prototype of an optical device that used low energy lasers to
measure your blood flow. This would be used by doctors at UPenn to better their
patients and will help save many lives. Then we went into a lab where they
study non-Newtonian substances like shaving cream, jelly and sand. They used
microscopes that can take videos over a long period of time to observe how the
particles moved around and interacted with each other in the different
substances. We saw an electromagnetic device that could measure absurdly small
amounts of magnetism. Then we went into a chemistry lab where they grew sensors
for nanoscopes. We saw a radio wave telescope that would be used to observe the
gas clouds that would come to crate stars. They had to be cooled down to
extremely low temperatures because the radio waves the gas clouds gave off were
very low energy radio waves because of their low temperatures.
It was all very fun and exciting. We were dismissed at our
usual time my group had to get back before the other groups because we had to
go out to get our data. I had a wonderful lunch with my best friends from UPenn
and went back right after. I was really excited to go out and observe the sun using
our radio telescope and the famous big satellite we had heard so much about. When
we got to the room where we had been building our radio telescope for the past
three days we were ready to get our radio telescope and be on our way to the
site where the big satellite was. We got held back because our professor had
built an electrical circuit for us that would power our telescope instead of
brining all the other equipment to power it. We had trouble with it and noticed
one part was not connected so we fixed it and sutured a wire to them which I got
to help with by suturing one side. We were all having fun but time was running
and we had to finish quickly and so we did and were on our way to the big
telescope. I was having the time of my life I really enjoy exploring and it was
like going exploring to me since I had no idea where the satellite was. We got
to the building where it was and it was really big. The building was old and
looked really cool.
We got there and we were being filmed through the ride there
and the whole time we were there. It was a little weird but I didn’t mind. We waited
a while at the lobby before being led to the roof by a person that worked
there. We got to the roof and the satellite was huge. We set up ours and
pointed it about the direction of the sun. Meanwhile our professor turned on
the computer and opened the application to take measurements of the sun. We
finished quickly since we spent long on fixing our radio telescope and setting
up. We packed up quickly and went back to UPenn it was really cool and I felt
awesome. We went back to the quad and I spent time with my friends because
there was only one day left. We hanged out laughed and just made the best
memories. It felt great to know I had made friends that think like I do and I could
talk to whenever I wanted. I finished my day by going to lip sync night where
we laughed at one another since we picked the funniest songs to lip sync to and
danced around. I couldn’t believe it was all almost over.
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