Wednesday

There were two lectures I wanted to attend today. One was at 10 o'clock and the other one at 1. The first one lasted about an hour. Most of the people in the army attended it. The presenter did a great job showing all of his data. To be honest, there was too much information and I doze off halfway through. There were many questions asked when he was finished. They offered punch and pie at about 11:30 but I did not attend. I had an eye tracking appointment in the color science building with Ann Nunziata at 11. After the presentation, I went straight to that building. The first thing she had me do was take an "eye exam". I faced a window and had to tell her which ways the E's on the wall were facing by looking at the mirror. Second test was she flipped through a book and I had to tell her the numbers that were hidden in between bunch of designs with color. I passed the test! The experiment lasted about an hour. To be honest, it was really long and boring. I had to look at numerous pictures of bunnies and two other images and decide which one is glossier. At least I got chocolate and pretzels though!I hope she is successful with her experiment. At about 12:30 a group of us headed to the second lecture that was in another building in room 1250 just like last time. There was pizza and drinks. There were two groups presenting. Each group had two members. The first presentation was about ECM solution and the other was about hyperspectral imaging. We left after the second presentation but there might've been more after that. Most people left after the first. When I came back to the lab, Dr. Swartzlander told me to had received stretched PVA from John Cael. It is 48 microns thick. Before I left, I dabbed some brilliant crestyl blue in one corner with a Q tip. Next to it I tried some black dye too just to see what would happen. When I mixed potassium iodide with water, there was no color change. I added iodine and mixed it around. It started to turn yellow. We decided to heat the solution to see what would happen. The solution turned dark orange after it was heated and it was dissolved.