6/20/2012
          On Wednesday, June 20th, I went to the Pomona Colleges for the first time in order to meet with Professor Dwight Whitaker who works at the Edward's Science building. The first thing he had me do was watch a pretty long video to learn about lasers and the hazards and dangers involved with using them and how to protect yourself and others. I didn't know much about lasers when watching it and learned about the different classes of lasers and how they can cause serious damage to a person's eye if directly focused on a certain bundle of nerves and can cause temporary to permanent blindness. Afterwards, I went down to Professor Whitaker's lab in the basement and he told me about how they are experimenting with many lasers being reflected and pointed into a very small chamber, keeping the molecules or atoms in a small cluster that was somewhere around 10,000 times colder than the room we were in. Since the laser video took up alot of time, him talking was short and i had to leave. but what i will be doing next wednesday and according to him, i would be doing for a couple of weeks, is working on a small circuit and making it better than it already is. It was a very interesting experience and i look forward to learning and doing more with the Professor.