The REU started Monday May 19th, 2014 with orientation and breakfast. That morning, I met everyone participating in the program as well as the program director, Dr. Laila Guessous.
After we had lunch as a group, we were shown around campus.

Tuesday May 20th, 2014, we saw several presentation about our possible research options for the REU.

Wednesday May 21st, 2014, we filled out a survey to describe what project (from the projects presented to us the day before) we would like to work on the most. Project assignments were given later that afternoon.
I will be working with Sai Stephens on the Nanoparticle project.

With the exception of a few activities, Sai and I spent the remainder of the first week and the majority of the second week reading journal articles related to our project.