The branch had fallen from the middle of the tree!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Windy in B'ham!
Yesterday and especially this morning it was particularly windy in Bellingham. My housemates and I woke up this morning to this site on our front sidewalk:
Thursday, September 22, 2011
New Classes!
So this quarter I am very excited that I am now only in classes that
have to do with my major! I still have one or two more general credit
requirements but I can do those any time. Two of my classes began today
and two yesterday. Yesterday I had Introduction to Global Change and
Environmental Education. Today was Oceanography and Environmental
Interpretation.
Oceanography is being taught by the professor whose lab I worked in all last year and he is in judo. I am very motivated to do well in that class because if I do badly I can't hide in relative anonymity, I would have to see him at judo later. I would much rather go to judo knowing I did well and excited to see him than did bad and want to avoid eye contact.
Environmental Interpretation is being taught by a woman with a lot of experience working for the Park Service and the Forest Service. She is a graduate of Fairhaven College with a much more liberal view of teaching. She tried to convince Huxley College of the Environment to have all her classes be pass/fail but the college said no. Now much of her class is participation, we grade ourselves for part of it and instead of having a final in December we will be going to North Cascades National Park next weekend.
All of my classes look like they will be a lot of reading and projects but it will all be interesting things. None of them have busy work or even homework every day. I just have to make sure to stay on top of deadlines and what not.
Oceanography is being taught by the professor whose lab I worked in all last year and he is in judo. I am very motivated to do well in that class because if I do badly I can't hide in relative anonymity, I would have to see him at judo later. I would much rather go to judo knowing I did well and excited to see him than did bad and want to avoid eye contact.
Environmental Interpretation is being taught by a woman with a lot of experience working for the Park Service and the Forest Service. She is a graduate of Fairhaven College with a much more liberal view of teaching. She tried to convince Huxley College of the Environment to have all her classes be pass/fail but the college said no. Now much of her class is participation, we grade ourselves for part of it and instead of having a final in December we will be going to North Cascades National Park next weekend.
All of my classes look like they will be a lot of reading and projects but it will all be interesting things. None of them have busy work or even homework every day. I just have to make sure to stay on top of deadlines and what not.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Project Survival - Cat Haven
On Monday one of the other interns and I went to a local cat sanctuary. This place was amazing! they had leopards, jaguars, tigers, a cheetah, some bobcats and a few other less well known species. These animals are used as ambassadors, some just at the sanctuary and some travel to shows. the cheetah they have is the only trained cheetah in the state of California (I think that is what they said) and anytime you see a commercial with a cheetah, 90% of the time it is theirs.
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