It is hard to think that it has already been seven weeks. Although it felt pretty short, I can safely say that these were the longest seven weeks of summer that I have ever spent. Over the course of this internship I met lots of awesome faculty members as well as interns. I learned a lot about how the life of a researcher works, and my interest in attending graduate school has increased thanks to this experience. This internship taught me a lot about myself, and helped me realize that research is one possible career path that I can see myself working in in the future.

Overall, it was amazing to see what the other interns in INSET were doing, for all the projects everyone had was vastly different and made our weekly meetings very interesting to attend. In the future, I hope to do more research work either as a volunteer or as an intern, in order to see if this is a good fit for me. After attending all these different seminars, I learned that every research experience is different, and that there are many opportunities out there. Although I struggled with presenting my project to those outside of my field, I know that I am getting better with my explanations, and I plan on working on expressing complex topics in a simple and concise form.

This entire summer was a learning experience that I am very grateful for. I learned so much about parallel programming and message passing interface through my project and my mentor. When I was familiarizing myself with the algorithms that we were using, I found out how powerful and useful Matlab is when it comes to these applications. While I am disappointed by the fact that I was not able to finish my project, I am glad that I was able to learn everything that I did from my mentor and from this experience. I will continue to seek more internships in the future in order to keep on learning more about myself and about the world of computer science.