Week 8

This week has definitely been one of the most eventful and exciting week at NSF. On Monday the summer scholars and I attended he NIST headquarters. We did a tour at the headquarters and learned about what NIST does. It is a a metrology laboratory, and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into laboratory programs that include nanoscale science and technology, engineering, information technology, neutron research, material measurement, and physical measurement. We saw equipment they had that makes scientist from all over the country to come and use. I’ve met one of the scientist there and ask her about the possibility of interning at NIST next summer. Wednesday we finally were able to do the white house tour. It was a fun experience. Since I’m about to leave in a couple of weeks and I don’t know the next time I will be in D.C. I was happy to go. It was definitely something to tell my family about when I get back home to Alabama. Thursday I went to event called “Engineer’s on the Go!” I wasn’t an engineer major but I decided to go anyway, thought I might get lucky. Strangely I did meet a company that needed computer science majors. I might someone from an IT consulting firm that says they will be looking for new graduates next year. We exchanged LinkedIn information and emails. I might another person from Metro who says that are also looking form information technology specialist. It was an event worth going to in my opinion. I would have to say that the most exciting day I had was Friday. I don’t know the specifics on why it happened, but there was an evacuation at the NSF building. When I got off the metro trying to go into the building they said that no one was allowed in. The Department of Homeland Police were at the scene and they brought the k-9 unit. But as I said earlier I don’t know the specifics of what they was looking for, all I know it was a day I’m not going to forget this summer.