Tag: school
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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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Day 67: In Which Life Continues to Roll Right Along
There’s been no big ticket items for a while; we finished up Polar Law, and this week we started the Oceanography course. I’m delighted to be back in a natural science class (as fascinating as Polar Law was). It’s also flipped over that the sun isn’t up when I have to wake up for school,…
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Day 44: In Which There is Another Maritime Museum
But first, the weather. It’s been raining heavily for the last few days (like, 16mm or 0.63inches per Day. For two and a half days), and also getting slightly colder. When I got out of the house this morning, I noticed that there was snow in the mountains again: In the staggering amount of rain,…
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Day 37: In Which There is a Fieldtrip (of a kind)
So this class is Coastal Zone Management, where we think how to chunk up space efficiently for management and how to talk to people about ecology without resorting to shrieking or beating people with sticks. (perhaps I don’t have the right temperament for government. I just want to grab people by the lapels and shake…
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Day 30: In Which holy shit it’s been a month
I’m very good at the linear progression of time, really, truly. Happy Equinox! We did a very haphazard poster session this morning. Everybody had put their data from their 5ish fish they each dissected about a week and a half ago in a spreadsheet so we all had a reasonable sample set to work with,…
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Day 6: In Which, Finally, The First Day of School Happens
and naturally, I was late. Problems rolling swiftly out of bed plague me as they ever did. How nostalgic to be in a classroom though, sitting in uncomfortable chairs, being told new things I didn’t know. The first class is a week long intro to Iceland Environment and Society, which appears to be part human…
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Which contains Days 3&4 from Day 5
because apparently reasonable indexing is for chumps. Did the second half of orientation which included an introduction to our library person and the university’s social media group who tried to seduce us to Instagram. (I will not be joining Instagram. I’m far too grumpy for Instagram.)I got both my technical problems solved, and then wandered…
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