The farmers are back!! Hooray!! š¤ š¤
At midnight, we were promptly kicked out of the classroom. After avoiding the cockroaches and skunks on the perilous journey back to Pinon, we finally arrived at the dorms. Since we hadnāt eaten anything since 5:30, we ate 3 granola bars each, and I witnessed a member of our cohort being tragically caught sneaking into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water for the night.
After a lengthy yap session with my suitemates and a surprising offer of flaming hot cheetos at 1am, I resolved to wake up 20 minutes earlier than usual in the morning.
In the morning, I did not successfully wake up earlier than usual. š± After sprinting half a mile to the Biology Annex (my daily dose of exercise), we listened to Dr. Dās lectures on stellar death and relativity. In the afternoon, Dr. F gave a brief lecture on Stellar Evolution.
After Dr. Fās lecture, we visited a rock museum on campus (Zuhl Museum). My friends and I were very impressed by the displays of fossils, geodes, and petrified wood.

A picture of us in front of a mostly-blocked petrified log, pretending to be sloths (in imitation of the petrified sloth in the museum). And the cross-section of a polished petrified pine cone!
After being unproductive in the classroom for an hour, we ate a dinner of very unhealthy nachos in our fancy supper clothes. The cafeteria was exceptionally crowded today, and our fancy, āreservedā spot in the cafeteria got stolen. š”
Back in the classroom, we semi-finalized our T-shirt design. We had to remove all the fancy components of our T-shirt to lower the price from $58 to $22 each, and we had to give up the fast shipping, too. Then, we semi-successfully campaigned for more people to join our T-shirt group so we could further reduce the price from $22 to $19. Afterwards, I stared at my computer screen for 5 hours trying to figure out how to do photometry on our LCO data.

My 7th unsuccessful attempt at photometry on our LCO 07-14-2024 data š
Finally, I finished photometry on two of our LCO observations! Our team, Axiom, doubled the number of stickers we have on the sticker board (5 ā 10)

Our sticker board! We picked the largest stickers so we could cover the neighboring teamsā stickers
Now, I am writing this blog post as Scarlet sings the Periodic Table song in the background and Dr. D talks about his future career at MIT. After my blog post, I plan to speedrun my Week #4 Reflection before we get kicked out of the classroom at midnight again. š¤
Hi! I’m Jacqueline from NMSU Astro II, and I’m from Cupertino, California. I enjoy doing physics and math and like hiking in my free time.