Hi, my name is Jay, and I’m a rising senior from Texas. Today we started off with a 3 hour workshop at Phillips Hall on using LaTeX (which apparently is pronounced “Lay-Tech”, blasphemy). So if you ever need me to reference an equation in an ELS article format, I’m literally your guy. Anything else, and I’ll refer you to my guy: online discussion boards whose conversation topic is slightly adjacent to what you want to know but not close enough to actually help. Afterwards, we went to lunch. The lines were pretty long for the different food stations, so I just ate linguini. I had a small amount of time between lunch and the lecture, so I went back to the dorms to take a quick nap.
At 1:30, I went back to Phillips hall for our another lecture, this time on orbital determination. Today we learned how to use matrices of rotation with angles taken from orbital elements to map an orbit into equatorial coordinates. I understand it less than you, loyal reader.
Finally, I headed to dinner and then, afterwards, workshop. At workshop, I had to catch up with my orbital determination code as I was sick earlier in the week when we had began coding. We observed at the observatory today, but we were unable to get any good images because of cloudy conditions. We went back to the dorms after our observation, and that was the end of my day!
-Jay
