Tamisha Trevino
College: Sophomore in South Texas College
High School: Senior in Themla R. Salinas T-STEM Early College High School
Major: Computer Science
Graduation: 2017-2018
Email: tammi15trevino@gmail.com
Weekly Journal
Week 1 (May 30 - June 2)
The first day was so nerve wrecking that I didn't know if I wanted to be here any more. I was homesick on the first day and I just wanted to be with my family. By the next day I had calmed down and had also meet my room-mate when i had got to the dorm. I had to get in the ball because I know I wasn't here to mess around. I was starting to get use to the environment by the third day so now I am ready for whatever is coming my way. The first day of the program I started working on the web page. I had a hard time because it was my first time using Linux to create a web page. I was struggling with the part we you had to put in your information because it keep deleting. Wednesday I started working on the actual programming. The roadmap was a hassle because I kept confusing myself with the information given given to me. I eventual asked for help from Andrew. Thursday I went back to my web page to work on the errors had made on them. The page was just a bunch of code and didn't have the format that was made for us. I just need to input the contact information again because it didn't save. On Friday, I started on the discussion question. Over all I had gotten use to the work load only because of the school I when to. So everything was fine.
Goals for Next Week
The goal's I have this week is to finish c-space and sampling-based motion planning. I have started on the C-space and have gotten half way done with it. I am planning to finish that section today. Also start on the project with Shawna,Tim,and Andrew.
Week 2 (June 5 - June 9)
This first few day, I was just working on the crash course. I wanted to finish before Friday so, I was on it like a hawk. on Tuesday, Art and I when to a pizza place near the many churches that are passing the construction area. On Wednesday, we had a group meeting to talk about everyone's project. Before that we played the name game and everyone had to introduce themselves before the game. I said very brief summery of myself because I don't like when everyone stares at me. Are project when up first, Medial Axis Planning, I wasn't very sure that I could do the project because of how complicated it seemed but when Shawna explained the information over with the group I thought that I could get the concept after working with everyone. But first I had to finish my crash course, which was shortened because everyone seemed be ready to start working on their project. Thursday, was trying because I had to fix my web-page but it would work because I had put a colon where it didn't belong. Andrew help me fix my other error, which was that my links to my entry journals wouldn't open. After that Andrew helped me work on set up to start testing the test that where need to be retest.
Goals for Next Week
My goal next week is to get a better understanding of what we are trying to do in my project. I understand the concept of it but I am not as excited whenever we get good results on the project. I want to be excited knowing that we got the test to work the way we want to.
Week 3 (June 12 - June 16)
This I started to work on my personal web-page and also I worked on more test for the medial axis planning project. I didn't ask for as much help from Andrew as I did last week and at one point all I asked was for commands that I didn't know to make the proses go faster. I made my web-page in wix, which is a web-page maker. I am still going to add more things to this but for now I just have the basic stuff like information about myself, I put my drawings, and what school I am currently in. I don't really do much but come to the lab and work on my project plus my weekend always end with me staying in my room doing nothing but watch videos about my favourite artist. The past two day I was helping take out the mentors from the conference room and clean it up.
Goals for Next Week
Next week I want to find the error that won't let Andrew and me run the Exp files. Next week Tim and Shawna will be explaining the project to the group in depth so if I understand what I am doing right now then I should be able follow at least half of what they are going to talk about.
Week 4 (June 19 - June 23)
This week was different from the other weeks, it was more adventures. Monday was the first time going to Panda Express, it was so much fun going with Andrew, Jonathan, and Art to just hang-out. Monday wasn't as hectic as the last week because Andrew and I did what we needed to do so we didn't have much to do. Tuesday was much more fun because Nancy invited me to go eat lunch with Diane, Mukulica, Shawna, Tim, Kiffany and Ida. The reason we went was to get to know Ida, who was also a DREU student, whoever she was working on a totally different project with another professor. It was fun getting to know Ida because I don't really hang-out with other girls here it can get boring here. Plus the people I do hang-out, I only hang with them when we are at the office so on the weekend I get bored. I started to run the project on a stronger server called Cali to start running the test but right now I am getting Stag. faults so that is my priority at the moment.
Goals for Next Week
My main goal for next week is to try and fix the problem that it is giving me in the XML file. Also to try and find the error in the RRT file that is giving us the error in the first place.
Week 5 (June 26 - June 30)
This week was about half the same as last week, work load wise but the other things I did was much more fun then last week. On the weekend before coming back this week I want to the dog park with Ida, and Kiffany. I am a dog lover so I had so much fun playing with the doggies. On Monday I did the usual thing work on my web-page then when Andrew came, I would ask him what I should and then started on that stuff. Wednesday was very fun, the meeting was brief and the food they bought for everyone was good. afterwards I had a meeting with Shawna, Tim, and Andrew. We talked about the progress of the project and what I would do for the poster that is required by the Dreu and Reu students. Later that night, Kiffeny invited me to the pool, when I got there they were chilling in the hot-tube. I was probably in the tub for about an hour or two and after that they invited me to go to a drag show that night. It was so much fun going over there and seeing this people doing what a lot of people are afraid of doing. We stayed there for like an hour and half and then when to Domino's to order a pizza. We chilled in the in chilling area and just ate pizza. I left earlier because I had to coming the next week. The rest of the week was just trying to working on the project and Andrew giving me some parts of his work.
Goals for Next Week
Next week I want to work on changing all of the exam to the correct way that is needed to run the test. Also to add more stuff to my web-page to make it nicer and maybe try to get a picture of Tim because he doesn't have one on his web-page.
Week 6 (July 3 - July 7)
On Monday, we were all kinda just working on are web-pages because the next day was the 4th of July. All I did was work on the web-page so I did really work that hard on Monday. The next day was kinda slow because Jonathan wanted to barbecue be he never told me when and if anyone other then Jonathan and I were the only one going. He texted Kiffany to see at what time she was coming back from her home town so that we can start around that time. Later we got in the pool and just chilled until 2am, Jonathan left earlier then Kiff and I. Wednesday was slow because everyone was sluggish, also I thought there was going to be a meeting that day so I was so unprepared if they were going to look at the web-page. Its not that I didn't have the stuff I need to show it to everyone but I just didn't like it at all so I just didn't want them to see it. Anyway, the meeting wasn't until tomorrow so I was happy but I didn't want to show it to Nancy or the mentors. The next day the meeting was a presentation by Shasha. After the meeting Nancy asks if anyone wants to volunteer to show your web-page, I never say anything. On Friday, I worked on some of the xml files for Exp3 until I started getting seg. faults and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it so Andrew came to help me with the problem. After the day ended I when to the Cinemark movies with Kiffany and watched "Baby Driver", that is how my week went.
Goals for Next Week
My next goal is to try to fix the segmentation fault that Andrew and I couldn't fix at the time. The work that I am doing are kinda hard but I am getting a bigger understanding of it so working on it is helping me immensely.
Week 7 (July 10 - July 14)
This week I work on Exp3 by converting the .xml files correctly. After that I tried working on my webpage a little long to have it the way Dr. Amato wanted it to be. I work on what my research is about and talked more about the week. When I was working on the experiment we found miner error on it. In the weekday after work we when to the bowling ally in grand station entertainment. It was ladies night so we only paid 3 dollars. We wanted to get started with bowling right away but we couldn't because there was to many people and they didn't know when people would leave because it was unlimited bowling. So we did the bumper cars which was super fun, even though Ida can't see she bumped into me plenty of time that i got stuck. The we played mini golf which took longer then I had anticipated because we had to move Ida through the obstacle the me put her back to the position from the beginning and she would hit it. She did pretty well and Kiffany and I where very proud of her. When we went bowling, it was super funny because she keep putting the ball in the gutter then after we put the rails up for her she ended up getting the bowling ball in the middle of the rail and the strip for the next lain it was super funny. And the worst thing she did is even after we told her to roll her ball she ended up getting it stuck in another persons bowling lain and the machine started going insane.
Week 8 (July 17 - July 21)
Week 9 (July 24 - July 28)
Week 10 (July 31 - Aug. 4)
Goals for Next Week
This week I want to fix Exp3 segmentation fault. Also get the webpage finished and approved by Nancy
On the weekend before the week starts, Ida, Kiffany, and I when to the movies to watch Kiki's Delivery Services then after we when to a Korean and Japanese barbecue. it was great and we had so much fun. On Monday, we had a meeting and Nancy started talking about the poster presentations we had to work on. After getting out of the meeting I kinda started to work on the poster and asking Andrew what I am suppose to put on this poster. He sent me a template of his previous poster, I added the motion planning and PRM and RRT boxes. I asked what else I should do but we didn't really know what to put on the poster yet so we had to wait for the approve the stuff. In the middle of the week we when ice skating and it was a blast. There was no one at the time we started ice skating then a bunch of children that came to be at the rink.
Goals for Next Week
Add more stuff on to the poster and try to get the webpage running better. We are still trying to figure out what is wrong with the some of the experiment but we are hoping to fiugre it out before we do the presentations.
I tried to input more stuff but I got confused with some of the stuff we where suppose to input on to the poster. So on Monday, I didn't have that much stuff on the poster and I thought I was going to get in to trouble with Nancy but she was fine with it and understood the issues I was having and so Tim, Shawna, Andrew and I had a little meeting on the experiment and I asked some question on how exactly she wanted me to do with the poster. So I worked on that most of the time until I heard on about the report we need to turn in. so Andrew was working on that, and I started working on the paper that we need to turn in. The weekend Ida and I when, with a person we meet at the hot tube, to a drive thru safari. It was so much fun, we feed the animal with the feed we bought. The people told us to hid Eve (Ida's guide dog) because if the zebra, camels, and or giraffes saw her they would try to kill her. But other then that we had a blast, the animals where great, I saw cow, ostrich, boar, goats, gazelles, and a bunch more. Their was this one animal that was super hunger because he kept following us until he couldn't reach us anymore.
I want to work on the paper and try to finish it as fast as possible. I know that the poster is also due and I hope that I don't get in trouble for doing that to Andrew.
Goals for Next Week
This week was dead week, I tried finishing the paper and also running all the experiment that we working. Kiffany and I were going to go to the drag show but in the end we did end up going and I a, glad because the next day was Thursday. Monday we had a meeting and I was presenting to the groups, I was super embarrassed and I didn't know what happen but my brain was in scramble, I wanted to die. I get very nervous when I am in front of people so when I was there I was super red but they couldn't notice because it was dark in the room. So afterwards, I just wanted to dig a hole and die. Anyways I worked on the paper the whole week and didn't take much picture because of how hectic it was. On Thursday I stayed in the office until around 1 in the morning and then Ida and I when to IHOP because we hadn't left to eat dinner yet and earlier at the time Diego and Marco came because Kiffany need help on the paper. On Friday, i woke up late because I stayed up too late, and rushed on changing clothing and run to the ILSB. I got the information for when I am doing and how I am judge then Ida and I when to the parasol lab to print the poster because the day before they didn't let us print. We waited for 10 minutes before the guy came in then we waited 30 minutes to get my poster done. So that when I got to the ILSB building people were already presenting and I was like 20 - 30 minutes late.
But over all this past 10 week were a blast and I will not forget anything that I did. I will apply again next year and am hoping to get accepted again next year.
