A Day of Science

Today there was no special activity for us to do. We focused on our experiments in our rush to finish. Pinto may have been gone, but the work continued all the same.

We started off the day with a delicious (as usual) breakfast of fresh fruit, beans and rice, omelets, and toast, then we were off to work. We were introduced to what our poster boards had to include (title, names, introduction, method, data, analysis, conclusion, acknowledgements, and references), and all went to finish the last of our trials.

After a lunch of rice and beans, vegetables, potatoes, and a tender cut of meat, we were all back to work. A few of the groups got caught in the two huge rainstorms that, as usual, came out of nowhere. Overall today, there wasn't a huge amount of ant activity, because it was either raining, or too hot for them. The lack of ants made the day's progress majority indoors, working on our presentations. It was a very productive day for the second year students as well. It was a long day as we sat at the tables doing our work, but Gabriel made our research very amusing. We all finally finished our data collection and began to work on our presentations just before dinner time.

Next, it was off to dinner: salad, lasagna, and plantain chips (yum), and then we all went back to working on our boards. Most of us are almost finished, with just a few more things to write. After a long day of what (in our opinion) is the most boring part of science (the report), it's off to bed with us all.

Erin and Kelly