While attending the REU at Kansas State, I was able to enjoy many exciting activities with the other REU students. During the weekdays, we worked hard on our respective projects, were given lab tours of the physics labs and the nuclear reactor at KSU, had interesting physics lectures by Dr. Larry Weaver and weekly ethics discussions with Dr. Bruce Glymour and Amy Lara. Over the weekends, the REU program had REU picnics, a canoe trip on the Kansas River, and a trip to the Kansas Underground Salt Museum and the Cosmosphere.