Day 23

At the morning meeting today, we turned in our presentations to Joe. I knew I would have to make changes to it later though. Soon after getting to the lab, Ryan and I practiced our presentations in front of those in the lab. I felt like my presentation had improved since last time. After that, I worked on the revisions to my presentation that Ron and the others had suggested. I also ran some of the tests for my feature extractor experiment. I will try to run more of these tests overnight, but the software we use in the kLab to do so is difficult, and I have previously tried and failed to get it to work. A little while after lunch, Ron had Ryan and I give our presentations again so we could have more practice. This time there were more people in the lab than before. After that, I made a few small edits then gave the updated version of my slides to Joe. Tomorrow, we interns will give our presentations in the auditorium to prepare for Thursday.

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