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My favorite part of my internship was probably finding props for the virtual labs. They needed different things to fill streets and stores to make the virtual city environment more realistic and designing each prop would take too long. Instead they had me go online and find free props that were high quality. It was cool and exciting and rewarding to find the props. 

My least favorite part is what I am currently working on. There is an excel sheet with 190,693 rows. The rows are filled with information from a camouflage study in which participants had to track a figure with their cursor and when a sound was made they had to click the person. In the sheet there is data for each trial that is invalid and needs to be deleted, the first misses in each trial. There are 60 trials per participant and 32 participants. Each trial had about 70 rows. I initially spent a couple days trying to program excel to make the rows disappear but it was too advanced, and I now have to do it by hand. 

New Skills:

- Peer Reviewing with Google Scholar

- Finding efficient ways to go through 

- Basic Coding

- Using Functions in Excel (If, Countif, Sum, Average, Ratios)

I have learned that I want to be involved in engineering more than psychology. Psychology, while interesting, is sort of boring in practice and mostly requires running participants, analyzing data, and writing a lot. However, making the virtual worlds and the overall "applied" part of the brain and cognitive sciences is really cool and exciting. 

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