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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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Day 63: This Is Not A Place of Honor
This class, Coping with Disasters, is taught by a professor who also teaches science communication, so she’s very into non-standard project formats, and we were encouraged to make whatever we thought would be interesting for the final. My group decided to do our final project about how nuclear energy/nuclear disasters are perceived by the public…
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Day 56: I’ve Thought A Lot About Disasters This Week (it’s not as grim as it could be)
The current class is Coping with Disasters, which means we’ve spent all week talking about how we define disaster, how we decide which disasters to pay attention to, how to cope with the aftermath. To that end, on Monday evening a narrative therapy lady came in to walk us through some writing exercises about how…
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Day 49: In Which There Is Just Lobster
I have written 4800 words about the American Lobster (Homarus americanus) and the New England fisheries thereof in the last 4 days and I’m only a little physically sick of typing. It turns out I hit the spacebar a) very strangely, b) very consistently, and c) pretty hard? So the outside of my right thumb…
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Day 42: In Which There Are Many Foolish Looking Fish
Fisheries Management has been a delightful class, but one of my favorite things this professor does is at the top of each lecture he shows us a picture of a fish we know very little about because, “people need to know more about how many weird fish there are in the ocean”. Spoken like a…
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Day 35: It’s the end of GIS (sadly), but maybe I’ll get to spend less time starring at my laptop and hissing
A few days ago when I leaving class a little late because all my rasters were turning out strange and squiggly, I noticed I was blinking a lot upon leaving the building because it was…bright? The sun was up with no clouds! I had to just stand on the sidewalk and bask for about five…
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Day 27: It’s Groundhog Day, again
Happy Groundhog Day! There’s about as much daylight now as there was around Thanksgiving, (about 5 weeks before the solstice), which means we have made it through the 10 darkest weeks of the year. Also a giant ground rat saw his shadow, which means it’s either six more weeks of a winter or there’s a…
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Day 20: In Which the Sun Comes Back!
The mountains to the south are tall enough and the sun sinks low enough in the winter that that there is no direct sunlight into the fjord from mid-Novemberish to late January. The return of the sun is so exciting it was a local holiday yesterday, and the school fed us crepes about it. They…
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Day 14: Some More Methodologies and Some Rain
We’re currently in the middle of one of those awful not-warm snaps that happen in winter, where instead of snow it rains for a day and half and all the snow turns to ankle-deep slush. Except where the snow has been insufficiently plowed, instead hammered by foot and and car alike into rock-hard ice, which…
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