If
you're interested in a
day by day account of what went on here, I suggest that visit my
cohorts links because you won't find what you're looking for here.
Instead, you will find just what I have--a (very) brief overview of
the ever expanding world of Astrophysics. If this is not the case,
then I shall gladly contenue. 
This
Is My Page
Hi! My name is James Wheeler May. My friends call me J.W.; one in particular calls me the Buffalo-- hence the icon. I will be a senior at Scott H.S. in northern KY, not Scott County!
I was selected to be one of seventy students to recieve an Earthwatch award. I and seven other students left for Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico on June 18, 2000 to study "Transient Phenomena in Astrophysics." Don't worry, we didn't have any idea what that meant either. Basically, it means cool stuff in the sky that does something. We studied variable stars, binary stars, and Messier objects, such as spiral galaxies and nebulae. It may seem boring, to the naked eye, but viewed through a fourteen inch telescope, "extrodinary" describes the night sky infinitly better than "boring".
For
me, though, the most facinating experience of being here was sitting
in on the lectures of our 
principal
invetigators, Don Casperson and Galen Gisler, their collegues, and
even Harrison Schmitt, the last man to walk on the moon-- I got his
autograph.
This experiance has also given me a wonderful oppertunity to create some really neat artwork (the stuff scattered about the page). I've been able to do some interesting sketches in my log and take some equally interesting photographs as well.
Being
here has been one of the greatest experiences of my life, mostly due
to the people that I have had the pleasure to be with--my P.I.'s and
especially my team. 
They
have all had a profound influnce on me in some way or another--Owen
is one of the funniest people I have ever met; Christine is a
musician after my own heart;Holly is quite possibly one of the nicest
people I have ever met; Steve (my roomie) is the sleeper of the
group, literaly and figurativly; Ewen is the computer wiz; Corrine is
the smartest of us all; Jake doesn't say to much, but when he does
it's always something I had never thought of; Don and Galen obviously
know their stuff; if they didn't, they wouldn't be here. Don's and
Galen's best attribute is that they know so much more; as for myself,
ask everyone else.
Have I been thorough enough to wet your whistle, but ambiguous enough for you to want more? I'll end with this (interperate it how you wish):
You may say that I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope that you would join us
and the world would live as one.
John Lennon, Imagine
This is the most important thing:
