{"id":3715,"date":"2018-11-22T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2018-11-28T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:56:36","slug":"final-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/engineering\/final-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Blog: Summer Adventures, Life beyond our Solar System,\u00a0and Goodbyes!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How time flies; welcome to my last Loughborough Blog!\u00a0&#x1f625;\u00a0Read on to find about some of the things I\u2019ve been up to\u00a0in my\u00a0post-graduation\u00a0summer, including satellites in my coffee, telescopes in Lithuania, churches in Stockholm and my final shift as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/ambassadors\/\">Ambassador<\/a>\u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><b>Final exams<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Firstly, I though I\u2019d share some memories of my\u00a0post-final-exam high; walking out in to\u00a0gorgeous summer sun with huge smiles, high fives and fist pumps from everyone leaving the exam. 5 years of studying, finally over!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3719 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit2-5-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>Europlanet Summer School<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Fast forward\u00a0a month and I was preparing to jet off to Lithuania for a summer school with the European Space Agency, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europlanet-2020-ri.eu\/\">Europlanet<\/a>, and the Mol\u0117tai Astronomical Observatory!\u00a0A group of about 20 members were flown in from all over Europe to learn about ground-based observations of space, and science communication.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3720 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit3-4-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of this, I got to hook my laptop up to control the\u00a0<b><i>(huge)<\/i><\/b>\u00a01.65m\u00a0Ritchey\u2013Chr\u00e9tien\u00a0telescope! On this telescope, we were taking high-resolution spectral emission data of\u00a0stars which\u00a0are known to\u00a0have an\u00a0exoplanet around them.<\/p>\n<p>This will then be\u00a0compared\u00a0with the spectral signature from the star during an exoplanet transit (i.e.\u00a0detecting\u00a0light\u00a0<b><i>passing through the atmosphere\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i>of the exoplanet<\/i><\/b>) in the future\u00a0(once the James Webb space telescope is launched).<\/p>\n<p>This process\u00a0will hopefully allow scientists to identify\u00a0the presence of water in the atmospheres of these planets, or perhaps even complex chemistry that may indicate life beyond our solar system\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit5-2-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The observations were taken from 11pm to 4am every night for 10 days, and on some days we used another (Maksutov, 0.5m) telescope to\u00a0take\u00a0optical\u00a0observations of exoplanet transits of stars, binary star systems and\u00a0detect\u00a0stellar earthquakes in white dwarf stars.<\/p>\n<p>We also had some downtime, which allowed me the chance to finally try out some light painting and astrophotography, and I must say I\u2019m pretty happy with the results\u00a0(see blog cover photo)!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3732 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1762\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2.png 1762w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2-768x345.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2-1024x460.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2-370x166.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit7-2-770x346.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1762px) 100vw, 1762px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also got the chance to visit the capital of Lithuania;\u00a0Vilnius. Below is us posing in front of the Lithuanian Parliament\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3725 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit9-1-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><br \/>\nWe also got to\u00a0take a detour to the internationally recognised\u00a0Geographical Centre of Europe\u2026(!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3726 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit10-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/>It was an awesome scheme, and if you\u2019re interested in applying, you can do so\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mao.tfai.vu.lt\/schools\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=138&amp;Itemid=232\">here<\/a>\u00a0for 2019.<\/p>\n<h3><b>International Detour<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Following that, I was lucky enough to take a detour on the way home and fly to Sweden, where one of the old committee members from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsu.co.uk\/society\/loughboroughspace\/\"> Loughborough Space<\/a> had gone to start a Masters\u2019 course. That\u2019s one of the things I love about\u00a0university; you meet some awesome people from all over the world, and some of them might even invite you to cool places for a visit!<\/p>\n<p>A quick tour of Stockholm,\u00a0some incredible churches and 48 hours later, I was on another flight back to the UK\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3733 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1714\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17.png 1714w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit17-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1714px) 100vw, 1714px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>Sataccino \/ Summer Placement<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>About 24 hours later, I started a summer placement working for a company in the Harwell Space Cluster, in Oxfordshire.\u00a0<i>I know how to plan relaxing summers(!)<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The internship, at a company called Geocento,\u00a0involved creating\u00a0a neural network for the company to classify clouds in satellite imagery and was sponsored by the UK Space Agency\u00a0(see <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/engineering\/career-tips-graduate-engineer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last month\u2019s blog<\/a> for more information on\u00a0SPINternships\u00a0\u2013 I had a blast!).<\/p>\n<p>Because there are so many interns on the site, the UK Space Agency hosts regular networking events, including a monthly \u201cSataccino\u201d coffee afternoon, with drinks that were\u00a0<b><i>out of this world<\/i><\/b>\u2026. (I\u2019m sorry).<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3727 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit12-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><b>School Games<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>And then, in early September, came my last ever shift as a Loughborough Ambassador; I was part of the social media team covering the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolgamesfinals.org\/\">2018 School Games<\/a>\u00a0on campus, where some of the most incredible, talented and inspiring young athletes from around the UK come to compete for glory.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit13-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Something like\u00a018 GB Olympic medallists\u00a0have come through the school games in their early careers, and every year a few GB youth records are broken! It was a fantastic event and I thoroughly enjoyed working in the late summer sun \u2013 I even managed to \u201cborrow\u201d one of the Associated Press photographers\u2019 cameras, as well as capture a rainbow on the hockey pitch (aka waterbase)!<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit14-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Au Revoir!<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>And now, I guess, it\u2019s time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a pleasure to be a Loughborough University blogger for the last year and shed some light on student life here. The last 12 months have really flown by, and it\u2019s over all too soon.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to read through my blogs; I hope you enjoyed them! Thanks also to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessExcell\">@JessExcell<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0putting up with\u00a0me\u00a0and\u00a0for\u00a0running the\u00a0whole\u00a0ambassador\u00a0program\u00a0(<i>#<\/i><i>BestBossEver<\/i>),\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0the digital team for helping format all these blogs.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more about becoming an ambassador, or\u00a0fancy your skills at\u00a0writing blogs yourself, then keep your eye out for the next intake\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/ambassadors\/get-involved\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3730 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15.png 1920w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15-370x208.png 370w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2018\/11\/edit15-770x433.png 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have spent the best five years of my life at Loughborough, and I wouldn\u2019t change it for the world. Thanks to the endless amount of people; staff, students,\u00a0friends\u00a0and lecturers for making it so awesome. For those still at Loughborough, or out there in the big wide world; until next time!<\/p>\n<p>And last, but not least, I would like to wish you\u00a0all\u00a0a\u00a0relaxing winter holiday\u00a0and a\u00a0Happy\u00a0New Year, surrounded by your friends and family. Here\u2019s to 2019!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23lborofamily&amp;src=tyah\">#LboroFamily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How time flies; welcome to my last Loughborough Blog!\u00a0&#x1f625;\u00a0Read on to find about some of the things I\u2019ve been up to\u00a0in my\u00a0post-graduation\u00a0summer, including satellites in my coffee, telescopes in Lithuania, churches in Stockholm and my final shift as an Ambassador\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":3718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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