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Hey, wow it feels like it has been a million and one years since I have updated here.
I'm not up to much really. I am taking a semesters worth of courses at Shoals Marine Lab, co-owned by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. It is located 7 miles off of NH's shore- A 95 acre island named Appledore, in the Isle of Shoals.
Currently, I am in Research in Marine Biology, with Professor Dennis J. Taylor of Hiram College.
My next courses are Biological Illustration, and then Marine Vertebrates with J.B. Heiser of Cornell University.
I also have 4 weeks worth of workstudy before and after my classes.
Everything finishes up there at SML for me on August 21st, after which I will head to the stores in NH, and purchase many 'necessary' items tax free.
Then I will venture back to Unity, Maine where I of course attend Unity College. This will be hopefully my first and last semester as a senior at that institution. As long as all of my credits transfer from SML I will have well over the credit count needed to graduate, and of course as long as I pass Fall 06 courses at Unity.
I will probably just take the Spring 07 off, and apply for graduation in the Spring.
I do plan on taking GRE's at some point. I believe I intend to attend graduate school at some point as well for Science education and/or Marine Biology. Either way I believe teaching will always be apart of my career path.
So, what have I accomplished here at SML so far that is exciting?
Well, I have finally learned how to swim. How? All by myself. I know that I need time and space to just work things out by myself. So, I went down to the swimming pool (natural swimming hole on the island coast) and after getting a snorkel mask and tube, went out to the dock with a life jacket and let myself float around, dunk my head, get used to everything. Then traveling around the dock while keeping one hand to trail docks edge, I became even more comfortable. Finally, I took off the life jacket, and after seeing positive results from 'free floating' face down without touching dock, and sans vest, I started propelling myself through the water.
I was finally free!
Just to be sure I swam back and forth through the shallow places, and the deep places in the pool.
Isn't that awesome?
I need to become Scuba certified if I want my undergraduate degree in Marine Biology from Unity.
I'm one step closer now.
Right now I am taking precious time away from writing a final report for the RMB class here at SML. We've all been glued to our computers all day crunching stats, doing and writing irrefutable analyses, and then writing our papers. Tomorrow must be dedicated to further revision and then work on our presentations and any other work that we need to turn in.
I should get back to that now, and it was lovely updating here again.
I'm not going to log off, but will intermittently return to relax.
Thanks!
I'm not up to much really. I am taking a semesters worth of courses at Shoals Marine Lab, co-owned by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. It is located 7 miles off of NH's shore- A 95 acre island named Appledore, in the Isle of Shoals.
Currently, I am in Research in Marine Biology, with Professor Dennis J. Taylor of Hiram College.
My next courses are Biological Illustration, and then Marine Vertebrates with J.B. Heiser of Cornell University.
I also have 4 weeks worth of workstudy before and after my classes.
Everything finishes up there at SML for me on August 21st, after which I will head to the stores in NH, and purchase many 'necessary' items tax free.
Then I will venture back to Unity, Maine where I of course attend Unity College. This will be hopefully my first and last semester as a senior at that institution. As long as all of my credits transfer from SML I will have well over the credit count needed to graduate, and of course as long as I pass Fall 06 courses at Unity.
I will probably just take the Spring 07 off, and apply for graduation in the Spring.
I do plan on taking GRE's at some point. I believe I intend to attend graduate school at some point as well for Science education and/or Marine Biology. Either way I believe teaching will always be apart of my career path.
So, what have I accomplished here at SML so far that is exciting?
Well, I have finally learned how to swim. How? All by myself. I know that I need time and space to just work things out by myself. So, I went down to the swimming pool (natural swimming hole on the island coast) and after getting a snorkel mask and tube, went out to the dock with a life jacket and let myself float around, dunk my head, get used to everything. Then traveling around the dock while keeping one hand to trail docks edge, I became even more comfortable. Finally, I took off the life jacket, and after seeing positive results from 'free floating' face down without touching dock, and sans vest, I started propelling myself through the water.
I was finally free!
Just to be sure I swam back and forth through the shallow places, and the deep places in the pool.
Isn't that awesome?
I need to become Scuba certified if I want my undergraduate degree in Marine Biology from Unity.
I'm one step closer now.
Right now I am taking precious time away from writing a final report for the RMB class here at SML. We've all been glued to our computers all day crunching stats, doing and writing irrefutable analyses, and then writing our papers. Tomorrow must be dedicated to further revision and then work on our presentations and any other work that we need to turn in.
I should get back to that now, and it was lovely updating here again.
I'm not going to log off, but will intermittently return to relax.
Thanks!