Blog Posts

  • COSMOS – Day 13

    COSMOS – Day 13

    To wrap up the second week of instruction, Roberto took us on a field trip to…

  • COSMOS – Day 12

    COSMOS – Day 12

    I knew beforehand that material science was interdisciplinary, but today felt entirely like a biology class.…

  • COSMOS – Day 11

    COSMOS – Day 11

    Following yesterday’s cyanotype printing lab, today’s class was spent discussing the lab’s results, key takeaways, and…

  • COSMOS – Day 10

    COSMOS – Day 10

    By this point of the camp, everyone is super tired, and half the class is falling…

  • COSMOS – Day 9

    COSMOS – Day 9

    The focus of the day was all about surface tension. In the morning, Professor Kolodka defined…

  • COSMOS – Day 8

    COSMOS – Day 8

    My friends from COSMOS saw me working on this blog, and one of them pointed out…

  • COSMOS – Day 7

    COSMOS – Day 7

    Today we had a field trip to downtown Merced! My friends and I decided beforehand to…

  • COSMOS – Day 6

    COSMOS – Day 6

    Today was the last day of classes for the first week of COSMOS! The week passed…

  • COSMOS – Day 5

    COSMOS – Day 5

    Today’s lecture was pretty confusing, but I got the hang of it in the end. Professor…

  • COSMOS – Day 4

    COSMOS – Day 4

    Today was rather uneventful. Professor Kolodka’s morning lecture was about crystalline structures in metals. He explained…