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Day 48: In Which the Last Class Begins
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…
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Day 41: I Continue To Be Baffled By My Classmates, But At Least There’s A Boat
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…
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Day 34: It Turns Out Arctic Shipping Is Mostly About Not Bumping Into Ice
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…
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Day 27: No, Seriously, Sand Is Not A Valid Foundation Material
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…
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Day 20: Would You People Stop Building Things On Dunes Already
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…
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Day 11: It’s a Sign!
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…
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Day 6, Semester 3: Third verse, same as the first
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…
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Day 77: In A Stunning Turn of Events, I Find Myself, Again, In An Airport
The weather forecast was predicting 100% chance of precipitation with 0.0mm of rainfall for today, and I had no idea how to interpret that, and was a little nervous as to whether I’d actually manage to fly out on time. But the little plane left on time, through some light snow and ominous clouds which…
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Day 70: I Should Stop Mentally Comparing People to Fish
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…
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Day 67: Happy Pi Day!
A day of puns and roundness, a time to embrace circularity and sweetness. This grocery store continues to have a very odd selection of things, but it does have sweetened condensed milk, limes, and digestive biscuits, which I figure are basically Graham crackers. Making a key lime pie, for the record, is still the fastest…
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