August 7th

At the morning meeting we finished all of the intern outlines. Then Emily and I began looking at our presentation again to cut it down because it was way too big. Dave and Roger came in and gave us some suggestions of what to change and what to get rid of. Then we finally emailed Bob to set up a time to talk with him. I worked on the presentation for a while and then took a break and worked on the new data Dave gave us today. It took a long time but by the end of the day we got it to just over 30 slides.

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