For the last two days I've continued working on some of the other beginner protein puzzles. Some examples of these will be shown below. I also attempted some of the intermediate work but found it to be very difficult, making little to no significant progress. Nevertheless, next week I will attempt more intermediate puzzles after I've reviewed some of the intro puzzles to refresh my memory of different techniques.

-Franklin O

A New Beginning

Today was my first official day as a member of the computational chemistry project here at Bergen Community College. It's been quite some time since I worked on the foldit tutorial puzzles, so I was quite rusty. Luckily, Dr. Rezae reminded me of many of the tools used when trying to properly restructure the Proteins in these puzzles. I spent the majority of my time today working on the puzzle shown below, managing to achieve a rank 3 score on the user ladder. In the coming days, I'll work on several other puzzles. However, I'll be less meticulous in my efforts in solving each individual puzzle but instead simply try to gain more general experience with the foldit program.

-Franklin O