Youth Voices: My Fourth Week at CIMMYT!
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| Youth Voices: Lots of nothing and lots of Bridgerton. 
07/13/2024 + 07/14/2024: This weekend was kind of boring. Both days I went into the office for a few minutes to check on my samples and record observations on them. On Saturday when I was heading in I ran into a post-doc that is working here on different technologies. We walked together to and from the labs and then went to Walmart to do some grocery shopping. Afterwards we walked around campus for a while and just talked. That evening I watched a movie called "All my heroes are cowboys" which I loved. I'm such a big fan of old or semi-old western movies. On Sunday I watched a movie called "The Ride" which was even better. Both days I went for a short jog, a longer walk, did bible studies, and on Saturday I did my laundry too. Not too busy or interesting, but I like that the weekends are a time to relax and restart for the next week!
07/15/2024: Today I worked primarily on preparing seeds for germination testing. We counted out 100 seeds for each sample, and for six special samples we counted out five envelopes of 25 seeds each. Then we tested and recorded the humidity for each of these samples. We were going to scan them through the video meter but now instead we will do that tomorrow morning because other students are using the machine today. After that I worked on developing an analysis for the information we had already collected from the seed samples and germination tests. Then I worked on lab research in my office for a few hours before heading back to my dorm/apartment. I went for a quick run and studied German and Spanish. Then I called my sister and went to bed. Not a very interesting day but I'm liking the routines I'm settling into here!
07/16/2024: Today I worked with the VideoMeter a lot. The more I get to know the software, the more I like it! I feel like I'm getting faster with the processes each time I use it and I'm learning more about different things you can do on it. Today we scanned six seed types with four sample of 25 seeds for each seed type. Then we put these 24 samples alongside the remaining seed types into containers to do accelerated aging...[CONTINUE READING]