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Rain, Rain Go Away!

So far CJ and I have not been able to test the sensors. Berea's weather is starting to rub me the wrong way. Actually, I already has. It just so happens that I have not gotten over it. CJ has been able to make great progress on the code while I have only been able to set up the sensors for when we eventually test them. The setup is important. I even created the locations for the sites we will be placing the sensors. Time has not been wasted but we could have gotten a lot more done if it had not been raining throughout the week. We already knew that weather was going to be a problem later on in the internship but this is ridiculous.

This is a good example of uncontrollable conditions. You never know what might happen because anything can happen. I was doing an assignment for one of my classes last term and our group decided to wait to finish one of our assignments for the next class period. The problem with that was we could have gotten the assignment done if we had not been lazy with our work ethic. At the time of the next class period, two of our partners did not show up so we had less people to get the assignment done. This was an unforeseen circumstance that could have been avoided if we had been more proactive with our work. I do not want this to happen with our project. We made plans to get the testing done tomorrow in hopes of beating the rain. Hopefully we make it in time.


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