Good… Morning!
I just had the best start to a morning that I have experienced all summer. Maybe it was the morning air that breathed through me like a cold front in my lungs. Or maybe it’s the idea of a looming deadline and my last true week of work. Maybe it’s the suspense of being here at this awesome research complex hours before others arrive. Maybe it was the pleasant and early energizing breakfast with a good friend. What amplifies this morning experience is that that I don’t do this everyday, nor would my mind wish to: but today is today.
However I break it down, it feels good to be alive and working on science so early in the morning, with a clear plan of what I want to accomplish today. Not only to work “hard” (as society calls this thing that I love doing), but to better the way that I have been doing tasks before. Today, I want to drain my new pen of its ink. I want to fill up a ridiculous amount of pages in my science notebook with ideas and delicious tidbits to take back home to the academic world in Houston.
I want to breeze through my tasks like I was meant to be here. Aren’t I?
Finally, I don’t expect to impress my advisors here at NIST with my work. I am, after all, just a mere undergraduate student at this point. I do, however, intend to leave a positive impression of myself on them. And looking at the past 9 weeks, I can say that it has been quite successful in my eyes. Successful not just for me, but for them, my school, my friends, my family, my …
I hope you have a wonderful and astonishing day as well. I’ll be home in two weeks.
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