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Today in class, I worked on my logbook. I updated the entries from last week. I also decided to go through my logbook thus far and add links to the bottom of each page, connecting all of the entries. I was trying to go through my logbook last week to find something, and it was really annoying to have to go back to the main page each time to get to the following page. I didn't have time to fix this problem last week, but I thought that today would be a good day to figure that out. My logbook is hopefully much more navigable now.
 * February 18, 2008**

Today I didn't really know what to do. Our project has kind of come to a standstill. I decided to research CERN, because I didn't know what else to do. I found a really good overview of what CERN is, but it was in French. I read through some of it, and I think that I understood it for the most part, but I think taht I would have gotten a little more out of it had it been in English. I remembered that DL suggested that I put a visual of the Standard Model up on my notes pages last week, so I finally did that. I found a really good image that has leptons and quarks on it. It is much easier to understand the visual than the text from the physics book. DL and CC and I also had a short meeting today. DL informed us that we probably would not be able to do the error analysis on our current data. It involves very in-depth mathematical processes and we don't know how to begin to figure them out. Instead, we can look at the IRAC data and come up with a new direction from that or we may just have to drop the project for the remainder of the year. There is talk that we may each join with an existing project team, as well. I sent Dr. Rudnick an e-mail as DL suggested, asking him if he had access to the reduced IRAC data. This could be helpful in regards to the life of our project. We are also supposed to begin a milestone/write out everything we know about the project type of thing. This is going to be my immediate task until we can figure something out.
 * February 19, 2008**

Tonight I updated my logbook.

Today in class, I updated my logbook. I also looked up information on lunar esclipses in preparation for the one later on tonight.
 * February 20, 2008**

Today I sent my e-mail about the lunar eclipse question that DL posed to us. I also updated my logbook. I also began work on my milestone. We outlined that aspects of the project that should be convered over break. I began with the first one, so I spent the rest of class looking up information about the Spitzer Space Telescope.
 * February 21, 2008**

Today I worked on my milestone some more. I continued making my notes on Spitzer and the instrumentation on the telescope. I spent the majority of the class just reading information and will hopefully start the actual prose of the report next week.
 * February 22, 2008**

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