The Kate Adventures

Debbie's Car      I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I ONLY HAVE TWO WEEKS LEFT! It is crazy how fast this week went and I am sure that the next two will only go faster! This week has been filled with activities that are helping us produce our final projects. Each intern has to have a final report, PowerPoint presentation, and poster. Most of us are doing all of these for the first time so we appreciate all of the help we are getting! On Monday, we had another REU group come in and we did some collaborative seminars that taught us how to write elevator pitches and how to best make a resume. These activities were very informative and it was neat to meet more interns. Friday was anther seminar day. We had a two part communications seminar where we learned how to make a good PowerPoint presentation and a good research poster. All of the interns got a lot of work done at this seminar and it helped me a lot! Right now, I am about half way done with both my poster and presentation. The ...

     Hi guys! I feel like I haven't posted in a long time but I have been SO busy this week!      I have been teaching Primary classes at church on Sundays and have loved that! It brings me extra peace each week to spend a couple hours with some kiddos. I thoroughly miss my daycare kids and my Primary kids back at home and cannot wait to see them in just a couple weeks! I know!! Just three more weeks until I am back in Oklahoma! Crabs! Crabs      As we are nearing the end of this internship, the workload is increasing! Our final presentation is on August 11 and for that symposium we have to have a poster, PowerPoint presentation, and a final paper. All of these things have the same information on them so theoretically they shouldn't be very hard, but trying to format them nicely takes some time. I have been finishing my last bits of data analysis this week and started these final presentations. This "crunch time" work reminds me of ...

     Hi guys! I have had such a good week and I am so excited to tell y'all about it!      The majority of this week has been full of work. I have been working a lot on more data formatting and analysis. To put it in perspective, I have 27 years worth of data about blue crabs in the Maryland Coastal Bays. That means that in order to get meaningful results I have to extract certain facts about the crabs and this is a very time consuming and tedious job. I am getting more and more excited about my work as I am getting closer to having results and I am hoping that I can get everything done within the next three weeks! Rocket launch pad!      This weekend was our last set of field trips and it was so much fun! On Friday we got up and headed to the NASA center at Wallop's Island. I was so excited to go visit NASA because ever since I saw Hidden Figures I have dreamed about working for NASA. Unfortunately, the field of science that I am real...

     Ever since I was about 5 years old I have had a special place in my heart for boy bands. I have loved the Backstreet Boys, One Direction, Five Seconds of Summer, and especially New Kids on the Block! NKOTB announced a tour for summer of 2017 but I figured that no one would want to go to their concert with me and that the tickets would be too expensive so I pushed the concert to the back of my head. In early May, my dad and I were on a road trip and for some reason the New Kids concert came up and I decided that I was going to try my darnedest to get to their show!      I some how convinced my mom and my mom's best friend to go to the concert with me and I was ecstatic!I bought the tickets, got off work, got a new outfit, and pulled my Keds out of the closet. I was so excited and more than prepared for this once in a life time opportunity.      So on a Wednesday afternoon we packed up the car and drove to Tulsa for the best night of my ...

     If there is one quote that explains me it is, "I wasn't born in Oklahoma but I got there as fast as I could!"      I was born in Utah but at about a year old my parents moved us to Norman, Oklahoma. For awhile I only wanted to get out of Oklahoma. I wanted to move to Wyoming or Tennessee or anywhere but the Sooner State. I have since learned that I love Oklahoma and wouldn't mind if I stayed there for the entirety of my life!      As I have been here in Maryland, I have missed a few things about Oklahoma....      1. Cows! - as weird as it seems I absolutely miss seeing cows everyday. I didn't realize how many cows actually live in Oklahoma and just how comforting it is for me to seem them.      2. Country Music - I am still listening to Tim McGraw and George Strait while I am out here but the people I am with don't always appreciate my music choices.      3. Rodeos - I haven't been to...

     Happy Fourth of July everyone! I enjoyed my holiday so much and hope that you all did too!      When I was preparing for this internship I was worried about what I would end up doing for the Fourth. Would I hang out with friends or maybe church family? Would I even see fireworks? My parents kept assuring me that the interns would find something to do and although I did not believe them they ended up being right!      Twelve of the fourteen interns all hopped in the two vehicles we have and headed for Ocean City, Maryland. Ocean City is about an hour away and is a huge tourist destination. There is a boardwalk right on the beach with tons of cute shops and places to eat and then there is so much beach area! We decided to go there because we figured everyone could find something to do and it wasn't too far of a drive.      We left campus in the morning to avoid traffic and in hopes of finding parking. We arrived at Ocean...

     As many of you know, I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (commonly known as Mormons). A cool thing about this church is that congregations meet all over the world, so if you are on vacation or moving to a new place you can usually find an LDS church a reasonable distance from you. All of these congregations are taught the same thing which makes the gospel universal. Whether you are in South Africa or South Carolina, if you can find an LDS ward you will be able to learn about our Savior every Sunday. For the most part of my life I have not had to worry about this because I have moved only once and don't travel very often, but the fact that I can find the gospel even when I am so far from home this summer is priceless. I will never again take for granted my amazing home ward and the amazing blessing that I have to get myself to church every Sunday!      I miss my home ward a lot and miss my callings there, but I am learning ...