End of Summer!!

Hard to believe I am moving into my dorm tomorrow.  This summer has flew by with working at my internship and the other activities and trips.

So today was the final day of my internship at CHA.  I will definitely miss the people there, both environmental health and other departments.  

The last few weeks have been setting out light traps, permanent sites, practicing ID'ing, and passing out literature. I also got the chance to work with the data (to see what exactly I wanted to compare) and played around with some statistical testing.  I did run some t-tests (comparing two groups) for larval habitats - tires and plastics-but ended up with a large p-value (chance of there being a true difference between groups/treatments).  I think this is due to the means being similar between the groups and the fact that I used a small sample size for data.  But I will probably go and see if Dr. C can help me out with it whenever classes start. 

Also, on Tuesday I decided to wait outside for the gas to pump while T ran in the gas station. And when the gas was done pumping, I tried to put it back. However, the pump wasn't going back the way I was used to (T told me that the older gas stations have different pumps then somewhere like Wilco/Speedway or others) and I managed to get a ton of gasoline sprayed on me.  And I did try to deal with but it irritated my skin the way sunburn does and T took me back to change into some different clothes and wash the area (and it went away fairly quickly).

I also got to visit Green Mountain last week with family for the first time.  It was really nice there - although I managed to get sunburnt (although never did at the beach) - on my scalp and shoulders. I also go to Ch daughter some insects and tried to show her mosquito larvae (but it squirmed away).  I love how interested she is in seeing this stuff and being dirt and water!

Looking forward to moving in tomorrow - ready to start my final year at Catawba!!!