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Today I received an e-mail back from Dr. Rudnick. He said that he has some ideas for what we can do in the next few months to advance the project. The error analysis might still be doable, as Dr. Rudnick seems ready to help. He asked us to do some research on propagation of error, because that will be helpful in the calculations. I have never dealt with this before, but I am guessing that CC has and that he will be able to explain that to me. I forwarded the e-mail to DL and CC as a heads up.
 * February 24, 2008**

Today in class, I got an e-mail back from DL. He also asked that we look up some information on error propagation and acquaint ourselves with that before I e-mail Dr. Rudnick back. We spent the first bit of class discussing the CERN project. Our proposal was denied, but we can still help out with the project in various ways, as it gets closer to the dates. I think that we will end up making some videos for CERN and promoting the project. The rest of the class, I spent google/wikipedia-searching propagation of error. I am still fuzzy on the topic, but I understand that this will give a number to the error in the calculations that we have. I will need to do further research on the topic as the week continues on, because I ran out of time today. I also had a chance to update my logbook today.
 * February 25, 2008**

Today I went home sick.
 * February 26, 2008**

Today in class, I updated my logbook entries from the last two days. I also looked up more on propagation of error information and I found a helpful definition: [|Propagation of Error!]
 * February 27, 2008**

February 28, 2008 Today we worked on a test lab for cluster data. I checked to see if any of the links on the page were broken while running the data query for the Swift Cluster data in November 2005. I don't know if it worked, because we all did the lab at the same time, so it ran very slowly. The links all worked, though, so that was good. For the rest of class, I looked up information on Spitzer and started to write my milestone. It is rather slow-going, but I almost finished the brief introduction to Spitzer.

Today is February 29 for the first time since four years ago! Umm...yes. In honor of this very special and rare day, I took it upon myself to update my logbook in class today. I just checked my analysis from the lab yesterday. It looks like 11 of the tests were completed and 9 are still running. I am not actually sure if that is the analysis on the dates that I did yesterday, but I'm just going to go with it for now, until I learn otherwise. I am pretty sure that I had an I2U2 study, so I hope it is. I also went to check out the pictures from the lunar eclipse that are on the site, but there are unfortunately none there! That was a bit of a bummer!
 * February 29, 2008**

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