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Day 2.

Yesterday was day 1. Arrived at JPL around 8:00 and sat in a conference room with all the other interns until it was time to meet my mentor. One by one they all went off into the world of rocket science while I sat and waited my turn, making small talk about building locations, M. G. Lord, and the LHC.

I finally met my mentor around 9:00, and he is the CUTEST little old Indian man. And he's brilliant. We spent a few hours going over practically everything related to the research that we will be doing on preplanetary nebulae, and I was able to follow relatively easily. Got lunch with Kathryn and then spent the afternoon reading papers until my account was set up. Left at 4:00.

This morning I downloaded star field images from the 2MASS database of our IRAS sources until 9:00 and then trekked to the badging office to get my NASA badge. It's purple. Got fingerprinted and such. Then came back and compared my mentor's HST images to the 2MASS images, and found some inconsistencies in the data, so we spent a couple of hours sorting that out and playing cat and mouse identifying sources with their spectra. Information overload, I thought my head was going to expload. Satisfying, though. Left at 5:00.

p.s. I copied Michelle by making this.