George Washington University

Week 10: Anthology Series

Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, I am sad to be home. As physicists, I feel that we should be more capable than most at stretching the time. There should really be some better perks to this gig.

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Week 9: Bad day to go against Ohio

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

To begin my penultimate week here with SPS, I worked from ACP once again. I successfully finished the programming portion of my spectral analysis work. I, of course, celebrated with the typical loss to Charlotte in bananagrams and for good measure tacked on a Scrabble loss as well.

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Week 8: A Love Letter to Lasers

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

Skip to the end to see lasers. I really won’t blame you if you do. Do it, go look at the cool lasers. 

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Week 7: Beach Day, No Sunburn? (Insane Feat)

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

To begin the week, I worked from ACP, where I finally figured out what redshift range I should be constrained to in order to have the best chance of detecting Lyman-alpha and CIII] emissions.

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Week 6: Freedom (From Work and Fences, but Sadly Not Tourists)

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

Thoughts from the week: 1.) birthday punches are kind of a crazy tradition if you think about it, 2.) jump a fence, and it’ll sometimes jump you back, and 3.) if you’re planning a barbecue, you should probably be sure to check the grill’s propane sometime earlier than the hour before.

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Week 5: Queries of the VANDELS, Shrek, and Ankle Variety

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

To begin the week, I worked from home (which brought very little progress on my code), and took a brief virtual meeting for my other job at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum here in DC.

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Week 4: Fallen Dynasties, French Wines, and FITS Files

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

It is with a heavy heart that I must declare Johnny and I’s undefeated spikeball streak to be over. It is also my pleasure to announce that the Celtics have brought the city of Boston it's first NBA title since 2008.

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Week 3: In defense of Spy Kids, Amtrak, and new material comedy nights

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

Picture this: you’re a child and someone has just turned the TV on. You begin watching as slick spies, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez, tell the story of their forbidden love (featuring lots of explosions and fake mustaches).

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Week 2: Networked Up

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

Lessons of the week: STScI is way more important than I gave it credit for, I wish I had a boat, and networking is way easier when you run it as squads. 

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Week 1: Am I Technically an Astrophysicist Now?

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Jaden Sicotte

Big takeaways from the first week? I love DC summers, SPS is the best, and whoever lives in this building and can’t make popcorn without setting off the fire alarm needs to be evicted. Also I now know what reionization means if anyone was wondering. 

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