And Then There Was IDL

Today I came in late again because of driver's ed but don't worry I'm done with that not that I'm excited *smiles really wide*. But I will be glad that tomorrow I will come on time because I seem to miss a lot of stuff in our morning meetings when I'm not here. I worked on the project of finding the distance of the 'Quarter-Mile' which ironically is .41 miles. I worked on that with Katie, Emma, Chris, and Liz for a bit. I then 'helped' Chris with his project which he showed me he has to completely construct himself. So he kind of used me as a sound board to bounce ideas off of and stuff. So we total decimated the whiteboard in the morning room...in a good way we just drew all over it with red marker but all of it was related to what we were doing. So it will be amusing if our collaborations are still up there tomorrow morning. After that I met with Paul again and we started to form a program that would save my graphs that I made from Robinson's data. We ran into a few roadblocks...The first being that some files were not formated into the 6 columns but some of them it turns out that they were just binary...So Paul said it was very difficult to extract data from binaries without knowing anything about them. So tomorrow it looks like after my first two meetings with Bob and Jake, respectfully, I'm going to talk to Dr. Robinson and ask him a few questions as well as show him my work so far...I owe a lot to Paul's help or I would be a likened to a floundering fish out of water. So another thing I have noticed myself doing is...well first in order to recall the last command on IDL one just pushes the up arrow until the desired line...this doesn't work however on practically any other program so do not try to do this or you will feel humiliated!