today programmed: - modified ticactuator.py in VS Code to print the control board's serial number and terminate immediately upon actuator startup, then verified the serial output before reverting the changes - configured the OpenScale board using the Arduino IDE by

while everyone at Stanford is riding bicycles, I bought a skateboard :D

well, it had to happen at some point (my wires are burned out)

wow, haven't seen one like this in years

omg, i hate matlab

ran into a few issues with plotting yield stress vs volume fraction. i'm using Scott's theory (tends to plateau to a more or less constant value) and i'm wondering if it would be best to average all 3 readings and use the average as the yield stress value for that sample or

switched to the no-slip model, which gives similar results with Gerry's (my prof) previous findings, and found it FAR more effective to organize different data sets, i divided the file entries into separate arrays for each sample group (need this for individualized code

hahahaha the level of security in my lab is incomparable

just today: - got 4 more VCs for my next event - redesigned poster for the event for the 5th time - managed to fit 13 photos of people on 1 page - fought with the cofounders for the 10000 time :) - made 6 google forms and qr codes - ate only philadelphia strawberry cream cheese

I'm hosting an early stage (pre-seed) female founder pitch competition on August 8th join us in Palo Alto at lu.ma/6lkme75i

organized an event for girls at joe & the juice this friday night 💅 then went to zo house sf launch party 👀🙈

someone please save me, we have a presentation exhibition here, and my professor invited 10 other professors from ucsf and berkeley

almost done...

- finished my 1st assignment at jay groves lab at uc berkeley - read 5 papers on synthetic TCR agonists and signaling protein phase separation

i get paid to study, listen to 1-on-1 lectures from a professor, and do research in a stanford lab what more can you want from life?

got 189 sign ups and [75; 85] actual attendance messed up a lot of stuff but im still very proud of myself :D

for now, the objective is to get the experiments to output approximately consistent results each time. instead:

My Berkeley postdoc guru mentor discovered that LAT protein clusters on the cell membrane play a big role in how T cells differentiate between antigens. During this month she and I used single-molecule imaging to observe that a single pMHC:TCR interaction can trigger LAT