Alice's Adventures

Been a while since we’ve had a good old fashioned technical glitch; I thought this had posted yesterday evening and then I went to bed, so this week’s update is slightly belated. Welcome to June. This class is Coastal and Marine Management: Practical Applications and Challenges, and despite an overlong and slightly vague title, the…

They took us on a boat on Monday! We were supposed to talk the captain about navigation systems and charts and yada yada, but mostly I settled in with the other kids have have also spent time on tall ships and enjoyed being on the water again (even if there was a lot of engine…

Remember how last week I said it wasn’t super windy? ha. Jokes on me, it has been very windy, except for the one day it was snowy and also windy. I can’t even call it a false spring, because it is on average much warmer than it was over the winter, it’s just not warmer…

Neither is trash, Boston. I just turned in a research project about Boston’s climate adaptation plan and how that’s going (plan’s good, now they just need to do it), which meant I did a decent amount of research about the city’s history of infill projects. I knew before that a lot of Boston was built…

We started Adaptation Planning this week, and while it is genuinely very interesting to see what options there are to cope with various natural hazards depending on what resources you have available, it would be much easier if people stopped putting expensive buildings right on the ocean’s edge. Just don’t do it! If you ever…

This one is mostly about the philosophical purpose of signs, because I’ve had a weird week. We had to do a final project for Community and the Built Environment, so me and two other kids got into a group to talk about how culture gets transmitted via the cityscape, and I a little bit lost…

I had a relatively normal flight back from Boston, which I was not expecting, given how oddly the last several flights have gone. I hugged Mom and threw myself into the warm embrace of Logan’s TSA. I escaped fairly quickly, but when my backpack went into the scanner I had little carabiner keeping my water…

So the most crucial thing, in this, the Population and Migration class, is that the professor also thinks Thomas Malthus is full of shit. With that massively relieving piece of information out of the way (because you do have to cover historical theories, and he did have a historical theory, it’s just historical because it…