I spent this weekend (and most of today) bouncing between sides of the coin. Many of the introductory classes had their midterm exams the week before break. So I spent part of the weekend grading exams.
The other part was spend doing my own assignments. The first was a problem set for the Interstellar Medium class. It primarily dealt with emission from atoms.
After class I moved on to the first data assignment for the radio astronomy instrumentation. We are looking at some of the raw data from the PAPER Experiment.The goal is to look at how to remove radio frequency interference from the data without adversely affecting the good data. We also looked at the autocorrelation of the signals from individual antennas to see if there were any anomalies in the recorded data. It was an interesting assignment. Always cool to work with real data! 
