So, I’ve been here almost three days now.  Nice place.  Covers a ginormous area.  The weather is colder than in NYC and it has been raining intermittently.  Yesterday, we were able to locate “Fall Creek” - famous for a high suicide rate.  Let me make one thing clear: Cornell and Ithaca are gorgeous (or gorges - same thing).  But they are also far away from any large town/city, so things can get boring fast.  As an undergraduate user of the Cornell Nanoscale Facility, I am not allowed in except during 8AM - 6PM.  This has restricted what I can do and when.  Training took more or less all of Monday and Tuesday but I got the ball rolling on my processing today.  I’m hoping the first stage will be done tomorrow morning and then I can do the second stage in the afternoon.  The final stage will probably have to be done by the graduate student I work with since I won’t able to get into or stay inside the facility after 6PM.  We have to get out of Ithaca on Thursday night or early Friday morning.  I’m hoping that I don’t have to return for some small processing.

Also, once I get back, I’ll upload all the pictures I’m taking here.