Personal Narrative: OSA Conference

This past Fall semester was very challenging but, in a way, fun too. It began with being accepted to present at the FiO/LS:OSA conference in Rochester, NY. But this meant that I needed to be very concentrated. I was juggling classes and midterms as well as everything necessary for the conference. I was reading more to understand more about the topic I was researching, so I would be prepared for questions, but also to have a better idea as what was I really investigating. I struggled at first because I was reading tediously, going back and forth between the calculations for my predictions, then onto the experimental aspect, trying to see how everything connected. Unfortunately, my experiment had a few small, overlooked errors. I clearly remember