Week 3

 Monday 29th January 2024

• Today I plan to write down ideas on how to advertise Tyndall to a more international audience.
• Ideas on how to advertise Tyndall to a more international market:
• Mention how welcoming the place is for any newcomers.
• Talk about your personal experience and say how you felt when you first visited versus how you feel about it now.
• Discuss the opportunities that it has to offer to any newcomers, whether they be working here or studying there.
• Bring up a list of different topics you can bring up that a new student can potentially study, so that they can bring interest to new students.
• Mention how you know someone else that also joined Tyndall that also had a nice time here, so you will have more people to talk about.
• Whenever I get home, I definitely should think of composing some music for the creative video.
• I worked on a tentative graphic for the Student² video blog.

• I worked on a who what when table for various tasks for the coming weeks.

Who?	What?	When?
Me	Composing music for the creative video project	By the end of week 4, whenever I am working at home
Me	Work on effects for the creative video project	By the end of week 4.
Me	Rewrite script for creative video project	By the end of week 4.
Me	Composing music for the student podcast	By the end of week 5, whenever I am working at home
Me	Creating graphics for the student podcast	By the end of week 3.

Tuesday 30th January 2024

• Today I decided to work from home today to focus on some video and music related work.
• I am currently rendering a video showcasing a scrolling parallax background.

• I plan to use this for my full creative video.
• I also got to work on a song for the video using FL Studio.

• Both of these have been rendered and with that, I got two assets that I can use in my creative video.

Wednesday 31st January 2024

• I am back working in the building today so that way I can type up and draw more assets.
• I am currently typing my script onto Word, and I plan to rewrite it so it adds more about how friendly it is to an international market.
• Here is the script that I wrote up:

Hello, my name is Jake Sharratt Martínez, and I would like to talk about my time at Tyndall. I am a student from Munster Technological University who came to work here for work placement preparation during the second semester. Although at first, I was a little nervous being somewhere that I had never been before, it wasn’t long until I felt it was easy to navigate around the building and the people there are very nice and helpful. It is very newcomer friendly as they tell you information that is important to know, such as safety around the workplace, and the supervisor showed me my place that I work at, which is very easy to access. You can study many different topics such as medicine and engineering as a student, but if those aren’t your specialties, Tyndall offers many other options that you can study. Working as a staff member can also be very exciting. Whenever I’m working here, I often have chats and discussions about any ideas that we would like to have during my time here and I am willing to write down whatever ideas are on my mind. Interacting with different students around the campus was also very fascinating, and I found it very satisfying to learn about the different projects and how they felt when working on them, whether they found it tedious or enjoyable. I enjoyed asking different questions, not only about their projects, but also regarding any hobbies and interests they have, such as any hypothetical ideas, such as if they would be interested in making a TV show or what kind of thing they would be interested in after they leave Tyndall. It also felt exciting when I worked on plans for these projects in the coming years, so that I may aid them out, to potentially guide them in the right direction for their project to ensure they pass. Honestly, doing that made me feel very proud that I can help other students. I also met up with another person working at Tyndall, and they agreed that working here is great and very welcoming, so it’s nice to see other people enjoy their time here. Tyndall is truly a place that’s full of opportunities around every corner, and it feels great to get in touch with so many new people.

• I accepted an invitation to have coffee mornings from 11:00 to 11:30
• I created an animated version of the Student2 logo with some animated details.

• I had a meeting with Ré and these are the notes that I got for today:
1. Moving footage featuring Tyndall logo
2. Gantt chart
3. Send blog
4. Send the individual weeks by the end of each Friday.
5. Send weeks 1-3 by this Friday
6. Write down your plan that you wrote down
7. I can still do the third project without getting the second project
8. Start - technical problem, next - paper research, next - look up SOA, next - one technical innovation
• I might do some brainstorming on what kind of hypothetical project I can work on as a PHD student, seeing as I can work on that even without working on the 2nd project.

Thursday 1st February 2024

• Right now I'm checking on if there are any good webcam recording sites for free, so that I may work on recording myself talking for the creative video.
• I have arranged a meeting room for myself so that I may do some filming of myself, as I have found a good website. It is called Weet and it can help me record some good camera footage with any custom backgrounds.
• I have the footage recorded and ready to put in my video editing software whenever I get to work from home.

• It even let me use custom backgrounds, which is good because I decided to give it a greenscreen. I will see if this works, I can always rerecord it.
• I will plan to research some information on what projects PHD students study.

Friday 2nd February 2024

• Today's plans will involve looking up what projects PHD students study so that I may be able to partake in the third project. Although the second project hasn't been done yet, I was still told to go on into working on the third project anyway.
• I found myself a link to a site that will help with this project: https://academiainsider.com/what-phd-students-do-real-life-case-studies-and-examples/
• According to the website above, the tasks to perform as a PHD student is as follows:

Key Tasks of a PhD Student	Description
Performing experiments	Collecting data and testing hypotheses in a lab or using computational methods.
Analyzing data	Processing and interpreting the results of experiments to draw conclusions and determine the next steps.
Writing and presentations	Creating reports, writing the thesis, and preparing presentations to communicate research findings.
Administration and organization	Managing paperwork, ordering reagents, and handling other administrative tasks associated with the research.
Collaborating with lab group	Working as part of a team and contributing to the overall research goals of the group.
Attending conferences	Presenting research, networking with other scientists, and staying up to date on the latest findings in the field.
Teaching (optional)	Instructing younger students, improving communication skills, and building confidence through teaching.
Communication and public speaking	Presenting research findings to different audiences, including peers, supervisors, and at conferences.
Professional development	Continuously learning and developing new skills related to the research area, as well as transferable skills such as project management and communication.

• Also according to the website, PHD students ted to gather and analyze data, conduct experiments, and publish papers related to their research. So with that in mind, I need to think about what my project should be about.