Second summer beginnings

Post date: Jul 8, 2013 6:15:48 PM

Summer is the best time to spend with friends, and the History of Life internship has helped me gain many of them.

This is my second year at the internship and there have been some drastic changes, drastic for the better. This year I am in a lab with 18 more amazing high school students measuring fossils of marine creatures to continue with Professor Jon Payne's project on size evolution.

Our mentor is Dr. Noel Heim, who is in charge of assigning us work, articles to read and other fun projects.

As I mentioned there are 18 other interns and as I see it, we are growing together and becoming a family.

We have so far gone in one field-trip. Last week we visited to rocky shores where we interacted with fossils and the organisms living in the tide-pools. I simply loved it.

It feels great to be back at Stanford, the friendly environment is perfect for the summer time.