I was initially approached by Dr. Schreifels
over the summer about working on some research with him for the fall semester.
He said he was working on a rebuilding an old Dell GCMS that had been out of
commission for a few years at that point. I particularly was intrigued by the
reverse engineering aspects of the project because I have always been more of a
hands-on person.
This project, if successful can be the
groundwork of a new device to be used to detect the onset of seizures in
patients through the volatile compounds they exude. I will be going into the
medical profession because I am passionate about making sure people have the
ability to suck all the juice from the apple we call life. Whether it be patient
care or the medical side of research I will be fulfilling my goals and this
project is along those lines.
I have been waiting on parts to come in from
Great Britain, Italy, Michigan, and Canada. My weeks of late have been working
with the Windows XP operating system and getting the 1992 GCMS software up and
running. To do this, I had to purchase the software and run it on another
software Virtualbox, I had previously used to navigate through multiple
operating systems. Patience is the one thing I have discovered on a weekly
basis this term. Waiting around for parts has been mind-numbingly slow. It has
occurred to me that typical research can be a marathon at times, and an all-out
sprint at others. Here is to preparing for my sprint.
