Monday

Today went pretty well. I was disappointed when I wasn't able to run this morning because i was too exhausted. It was really nice to be able to have some freedom and be able to walk to our cluster building as a group. We worked all morning on working model and what could have taken me 5 minutes ended up taking me two to three hours and once i finally got it all done the program quit on me and I had to re-import the entire pendulum. We ate lunch with the administrators and we were a very quiet group. I was so quiet because i was so exhausted and because i really did not have that much to say. I am overall really pleased with my cluster and I did not have to much negative things to say. I thought it was really nice though that we had a lunch together because it showed that the cosmos staff cares about what the students think and how we heard about the program in order to reach out to more students. I also found that the opportunities that the scholarships give are such amazing chances for students to continue in math and science after cosmos. After lunch we went back into the design studio and finished up our pendulums. I still have not completed the pendulum although i made a little bit of progress in painting and putting the whole piece together. I was dreading the lecture because of how tired i was. Once we were in the lecture though i found that the lecture was very interesting and it made a lot of things make sense. I am also very happy with the fact that my cluster does not have that much homework. We already work so many hours a day in our summer and to have homework on top of that just stresses us out and does not let us to enjoy our summers. I still have to complete my group request forms but i really like how we get the opportunity to express why we should work together instead of just having our group broken apart.