INTERSHIP 2: Malacology

A month ago, I started an internship at the archives of the HMNS (at Marconi), which consists of documenting new and old species, cleaning them, writing tags for each specie, and other tasks. 

I spend 4hours a week there (sometimes more, sometimes less) and do different tasks each day. So far, they taught me how to tag a specie and document it (Eventually, I would be working on other projects). My longest project was to go through 20books  (where they used to document old species) and mark all the species that have been deaccessioned. Moreover, while looking through them, I had to make sure that all the informations noted are accurate. This task definitely require a lot of patience and focus, because one mistake can have many bad consequences.

INTERNSHIP 1

             HMNS History Project


    Since November, I have been working with a group of people on a history project for the HMNS (Houston Museum of Natural Science). This project consists of finding out more about the history of the museum and documenting it.

    We spend three hours a week at the libraries (Rice University, University of Houston, Downtown Houston Public Library...) looking through the newspaper articles, to find relevant information about the history of the museum. We also has access to the documents at the museum's archives, once. In addition, we interview multiple people who worked or who are currently working for the museum/volunteering in order to collect more informations. I interviewed Ms. Donna Meadows on December and I asked her about her work at the museum and the changes that occurred since she first started working there. Other people are also conducting other interviews, and we hope that by the end of the spring season we would have enough informations to present our findings to the public.

     This project is one of the most challenging projects I've worked on so far because it require a lot of patience and work. I've went many times to the library, looked through newspapers and online databases in vain. We don't know whether the newspapers we pick would have informations or not, as we don't know whether the people who we interview would have different informations to share with us from what we already have. I had so many unsuccessful weeks, where I go to the library, look through the documents, and find nothing. But, we all hope that our efforts would be worth it.

J-TERM 2017

              CAC J-Term 

          For my J-Term 2017, I was part of compute a computer group: we built our own computers within a budjet of $300. YES, ONLY $300!!!

          During a three week period, we had the opportunity to learn about gaming computers and their main components. During the first days, we read a book called "Build your own gaming PC", that talked briefly about all the components a gaming PC has to have, as well as its principle functions. 

Furthermore, we did our own researches to get even more familiar and comfortable with the component. I always thought building a computer was a complicated process, but it's actually easy to learn (if you read a lot about it). However, the hardest thing is to choose components that are efficient and compatible with the rest, and that sum up to $300.

          Our next task was to create a part list, as you can see down here:

             -- We had to order our components from either Amazon or Micro Center.



       Then, after receiving all the necessary material, we built our computers, and mine looked like        this: