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October 5, 2013
Today was my first day as an aprentice! Our starting day was led by Ernie, who is moving far away. Because of this he won't be here most of the time. He started of the day with giving us paperwork to be filled by next time, followed by the "gloom and doom" speech, where he went over the code of conduct. It was so long we had a break in the middle of it. Then we set up our Shodor accounts, which were gonna use a lot. Then we had a tour of the workplace, soon followed by lunch. After lunch, we learned the basics of Terminal, and were given our first project. What a day!

November 16, 2013
Today we worked on modeling. We started with finishing a Vensim program we did yesterday. Then, we worked on AgentSheets, which took up most of the day. Toward the end, we got our projects, where we’re modeling different situations. We partnered up, and mine is Susung. Hopefully, our project goes well.

November 23, 2013
Today we listened to a lecture on business ethnics by Ron. It was the same one he gave at SSP. It was a fun and interesting presentation! I remember from SSP that he is blind, and I think it's cool that he can still program. After that he gave us an extra assignment for us to do. After that, Joel (the system administrator, I think) told us how to connect out computers t o the ones at Shodor. He then went on to tell us about Terminal, a program that seems like it takes practice. After hours, I also found out that the additional office hours are optional, which is a relief!

December 7, 2013
Today we mostly worked on projects. I worked on a Vensim cops and robbers model while Su Sung worked on an AgentSheets one. I suprised myself with Vensim, because I'm not that good at it. We decided to use my model. I also finished my website!

February 1, 2014
Today we listened to and presented our projects. I still can't believe I got mine done! We also started on programing concepts, which seems like it may be challenging. Also, I edited my site so that the colors of the text and background are reversed, and it looks cool! Next week I'll work on the fonts. Also, this is my first session as a fourteen-year old!

February 8, 2014
Today we listened to Aaron and Phil talk about programming concepts. It seems a lot more fun then modeling. However, now my Firefox app doesn't work for some reason, and my Chrome app never worked in the first place. I still need to present my project to my mentor, Kristen. All in all it was a good day.

March 1, 2014
Today we listened to Mobeen talk about parrallel computing. it seems very interesting. I still need to talk to Kristen about my project if I want to get my stripend. I asked Phil for a summer schedule for my mom. Today was a good day.

March 8, 2014
Today we talked about parallel computing again. Toward the end of the day we tried building our own computers online. I couldn't find a website to do that. What was really fun was learning about the game of life, a one person game that can model bacteria. I talked with Kristen today, and now I'll get my fall stripend!

March 22, 2014
Today was the last day of lectures before projects. I had to catch up on my reflections for the last few weeks because I've been forgetting to do them. We watched an animated short on the importance of Parallel Computing. It was with the peinguins in the movie madagascar, so it brought me back. I wonder how hard the project is going to be?

April 5, 2014
Today I started working on a forest fire project. I did it by myself because no one could partner up with me. I got help from Phil and even more from an Intern named Tejal. She was good at explaining things so I could understand them. I'm actually almost done with it!

April 12, 2014
Today I continued to work on my project, but didn't quite finish it. I will soon, however. Nothing else really happened, although other groups presented their projects. In one group's model, you could change how big the canvas was! It was really interesting.

June 18, 2014
Today was my first summer day as an apprentice because I was out Monday and Tuesday. We're writing HLDs, which are High Level Design documents, I believe. It took me a while to finnish mine because I wanted to sample my own project. I'm going to be watching workshop students during their break on Friday. All in all today was tiring.

June 19, 2014
Today was really fun. I got my HLD project turned in and checked off, but because everyone else already had one, mine probably wont be used, which I'm okay with. I got the Fashionista Phil Project, and made some good progress. I'm almost done with it! And better, I barely needed help!

June 20, 2014
Today I posted my HLD on my website. I would've posted my Fasionista Phil model but I haven't finished it quite yet. However, I made some good progress though. I wont be here next week, but I'll come on the week of July 4th (exept for the actual July 4th). I can't wait to relax this weekend.

June 30, 2014
Today I finnished my project. I'll need to put it on my website still, but I'm proud of it! There were only two apprenteces today, which was nice. I got some work done on my project too. Today was a pretty good day.

July 1, 2014
Today was really productive. I finished my Fashionista Phil project and added it to my website. also, someone presented her forest fire model, and she did a good job. I started in the Inkscape tutoral, and I'm almost done. I already have ideas for my logo!

July 2, 2014
Today was also really productive. I finished my Inkscape tutorial and and completely did te gimp one. Gimp can be pretty complicated when it wants to. I also completely redecorated my website to this notepad theme. Today was a good day.

July 3, 2014
Today was really productive too. I finished my projects for block 1! What's better is that I dont have to present anything until block three! I kind of liked there being only one other apprentice this week. Anyway, off to the weekend!

July 7, 2014
Today was the beginning of block 2. It's on PHP, which seems hard. I fell behind a couple of times. Also we're learning how to do animated GIFs. Today was a good day.

July 8, 2014
Today was the beginning of our lessons in PHP. Joel taught us and gave us some projects to work on. Right now I'm writing a dice rolling model. I'm almost there, but I'll need some help. Today was a good day.

July 9, 2014
Today we continued our PHP lessons with Joel. That took the whole morning, although it was interesting. The we had lunch. After that we continued on our projects. Today was a good day.

July 10, 2014
Today we continued our PHP lessons with Joel again. When I was working on my projects, Joel helped me a lot. now the button works on my dice model, although I need to insert a chart. I also started on a random background color model. Today was pretty good.

July 11, 2014
Today we finished our PHP lessons with Joel. I think we're doing SQL next week. Joel helped me finnish my project, which was cool. Now I need to do the "Dane Joe" project. Today was a good day.

July 14, 2014
Today we started our SQL lessons with Joel. SQL seems relatively easy. Afterwards we continued work on our progects. I started on Random Backgrounds. Today was overall good.

July 15, 2014
Today we continued our SQL lessons with Joel. I have to link my dice project to a database. Also Phil helped me with my Random Backgrounds project. It's pretty fun. Today was good.

July 16, 2014
Today we further continued our SQL lessons with Joel. Linking the database to the dice model is proving to be hard. I'll ask Joel about it tomorrow. Block 2 is definitely difficult. However, I had a good day today

July 17, 2014
Today I think we finished our SQL lessons with Joel. I also tried to translate my blog into XML. It's pretty challenging. Joel helped my link my dice table to the database. Tomorrow I will finnish my XML.

July 18, 2014
Today we had no SQL lessons with Joel. I spent the entire morning documenting and writing took a long time. I had very little programming time. I need to finnish my XML blog. Can't wait for block 3!

July 21, 2014
This week is my last week as an apprentice. We started the day with advanced programming concepts. It was complicated. We then moved on to engineering. It was fun! Today was a good day.

July 22, 2014
Today was very interesting. First we did more programming concepts with Phil. Then I shoulder-surfed for the web design workshop. I helped a lot of people. Today was a good day.

July 23, 2014
Today was also very interesting. We started it with jQuery. It was crazy hard. Then we build circuits in engineering. It was fun! Today was a good day.

July 24, 2014
Today was also very interesting. I wasn't here for the morning because I was getting braces. I need to catch up. In engineering we did physics. Today was good.

July 24, 2014
Today was my last day in the building. In the morning we built a LittleFe. It was awesome! In engineering we built boats to hold marbles. It was awesome!