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Today in class, we all listened to AL's report for the science fair. We finished with the presentations today.
 * March 10, 2008**

My project's official title is "Star Formation Rates in High Redshift Galaxies." In this project, I have been learning about different astronomy topics and galaxies. Redshift galaxies are very ancient and were present around the time of the big bang. By studying the rates of star formation in these galaxies, we can predict what may happen in our own galaxy in the future. For this project, I have also been using the data collected by Matt and Vinay over the past two years. They actually calculated the star formation rates of the three galaxies that we are looking at. The first half of the year was spent attempting to understand what exactly their calculations meant and how they figured them. I also had the opportunity to make and present a poster at the American Astronomical Society's annual conference this past December. There I was able to learn more about my topic and many other aspects of astronomy. For now, I am trying to write up a milestone to explain this project in great detail to others.
 * March 11, 2008**

Today I wrote the paragraph about my project that DL asked us to do. I also updated my logbook in class.

Today I updated my logbook.
 * March 12, 2008**

Today we all got e-mails from DL explaining what it is that we are going to be doing at the particle physics masterclass tomorrow. In preparation for that DL wanted us to take a pre-test that he created. The e-mail also said something about us finding some sort of event in the powerpoint slides that we had linked to us, but I don't know what that means. I took the pre-test, but it was really hard; it took me the entire class to finish, so I didn't even have time to figure out what was meant by the event stuff. I gave a copy of my pre-test to MM. I don't know what I've gotten myself into with this masterclass tomorrow; my understanding of particle physics is very limited.
 * March 13, 2008**

Today I was not in class because I attended the particle physics masterclass at Notre Dame. I will go into further detail about that experience on a separate link, regarding information just about the masterclass.
 * March 14, 2007**

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