Wednesday morning included my least favorite activity of the internship. I had to be at the Tulane biomedical building, which is downtown, at one in the morning to feed the lung cells. We were growing the cells on the ECIS device, and that is not the ideal condition to grow and culture cells in. The space is very small, so we had to come in at one in the morning to feed the cells so they wouldn't stop growing and die. I was very tired during that day of the internship. Monday through Wednesday was when I finished up the experiments and collected the data. Thursday morning, we had a meeting with Dr. Gaver, who is the chair of the department of Tulane Biomedical Engineering. We told him everything we learned throughout the two weeks we had been there. We explained to him the experiments we did and the skills we learned as well. We also discussed the problems with the ECIS device how to solve them. After the meeting, we went and got lunch together for the last time. The lunch wrapped up the two weeks of the internship. I thanked Dr. Guchi and Dr. Gaver for all their time and help. I learned a tremendous amount knowledge and skills from this internship, but I had fun as well.
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