Tag: school
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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 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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Day 7: Back to Daily Grind
Happy Friday the 13th (oogly boogly). I did actually make it back into town on Tuesday, which was a relief, and the flight was only a little bumpy on the way back. It’s not that grinding being back at school, but it is much darker than it was at home. It’s also much sunnier than…
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Day 115: In Which the Semester Rolls to a Close
I’ve given the last presentation, turned in the last paper, gone to a couple holiday parties, and very nearly eaten down the fridge. I have not, however, started packing. Ya win some, ya lose some. Maritime Anthropology was indeed a fun class, with maybe one of the most distractable professors I’ve ever had. We barely…
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Day 109: In Which We Wrap Up Coastal Processes, and Turn Towards the Break
It has been a very busy week; it’s last week of Coastal Processes, and a lot of people left on Friday in lieu of taking the last week of classes. The fact that I’m going to be on a plane headed home in a week a little brain boggling (still quite bad at the linear…
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Day 100: In Which There is One of Many Independence Days
Rabbit Rabbit! The funny thing about having had several recognized governments and a complicated relationship with the crown that originally colonized you, is that you get a lot of independence days. This is the 1918 independence, which was technically granted to the Kingdom of Iceland (which doesn’t exist anymore and is also sort of the…
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Day 94: In Which Economics is Completed, and That Means I Get to Go To Bed
I’ve officially been here for more than 90 days, which is when most visas expire and they make you go home. For the record, 90 days is wildly long time to have free reign in another country. And it’s the strangest things remind me that I’m actually on foreign continent and not just weird part…
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