PhotoBlog: Flooding, NIU, Forests, Lake Michigan

One more week at home until the school years starts. I've been enjoying the last few days of my summer vacation enjoying the lakes, and forests preserves around Lake County. Earlier in the summer there was extensive flooding from the des plaines river that destroyed a bit of Gurnee in the pictures you can see …

Van Patten Woods Walk

I drove to the one of the northern most forest preserves in Illinois, Van Patten Woods, Zion. The last time I was here was for a fishing derby when I was in cub scouts, it was nostalgic in that sense, that I was by the lake almost 10 years ago. Currently there is some flood …

First Research Presentation Complete!

The last week of SROP concluded with a great poster session. All the hard work and dedication during the last 8 weeks was all worth it, and it showed when people were interested and active in my research presentations.   The SROP program has been the first "job" that I've finished wishing it was over, …

Persistence Is Key

This week was pretty successful overall. Even when at times It felt like very little progress was being made when I look back a lot of knowledge was gained. I finished up the final poster earlier in the week and it turned better than I could have hoped for. I really like the colors and …

Mid-Week Photography Update

It feels like I took these photos so long ago... but it was only this week 🙂 NIU Convocation Center: Dairy Ripple Banana split Sycamore Dirt Track Raceway Sycamore Government One of the only things that keeps me sane Pretty sunsets      

Just Finished the Busiest Week

For some reason the time during this week just seemed to fly by. The workshops, dinners, lab visits, and poster creation seemed to mesh together making a very busy week. I'm glad its over and I've learned a lot during it. I also met new interesting people at NIU, such as Dr. Papka, Joe Insley, …

Crunch Time Begins

Synapse of my week. Over the weekend, I traveled home to spend some time with my grandma who was visiting. On top of that I got to go to a bike race my brother was competing in he placed 5th in the juniors category. On Monday, Dr. Kersh came to discuss our thoughts on the …

SROP Week #4

A Week in Recap: In the lab we finished performing the calculations of our decision trees, and got to analyze the results. We have good results that point to a better accuracy with data that is more "vague" to the data that was originally collected in the surveys. As a rough estimate our classifiers performed …

SROP Blog #3

What I've been working on. I can't believe its already the third week of the program. It seems like we just started yesterday. The long fourth of July weekend really was a well needed break from the tedious research I've been doing at the lab. When it was time to come back, I came back …

SROP Blog #2

First real week of the program done. I really love my work atmosphere, its very conducive to learning and personal growth. I spent the majority of the week writing python scripts to transform .xlsx and .csv files into something that we could use for weka(a machine learning tool). After this week it put me in …