Middle Twelve Reflection:
What I learned from FW 419 Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Going into this class I did not know what to expect. Everyone I had talked to said that it was really hard class and don’t expect good grades. They were even more perplexed to find out I had never used the software program essential [...]
Refugees and Accomplishing the Seemingly Impossible
Taking PLS 422 my junior year was by far the craziest and best decision I’ve made while being here at State. It was insane because I took a 400 level Political Science seminar lecture that all Poly Sci majors had to take (it was challenging), but I also learned so [...]
Poverty Solutions
Taking SCC 490: Global Poverty as a really different experience for me my junior year. Up until that point, most of my classes had been pretty large lectures, and the only time I was in a small group was when/if I had recitation. This class however was very small and therefore gave me a [...]
12/24/09
Weather: sunny, little wind in the morning. Winds picked up in the afternoon
Location: Madder Cliffs, Brown Bluff, and Anderson and Johnson Islands
Early morning…Graham woke us up at 5:40 to view tabular icebergs. There are many different kinds of icebergs, which include blocky and others. By 7:00 am we were all bundled up. The Ocean Nova’s [...]
By: Emily Ries
Have you ever thought of being an elementary teacher? Over the past couple of years, through my teaching and facilitating experience with different groups, I have been told that I would be a good elementary teacher. My Middle Twelve class, Environmental Studies and Agriscience 335 titled, “Engaged Learning and Teaching” enabled me to [...]
First of all, this class is class on French Linguistics and I thought I was getting to learn more about syntax, which I first began learning about in my IAH 231C course last year. I was wrong.
The main theme of the class was that of identity, how we deal with it when we’re “displaced,” and why it’s important to hold on to where we’re from. This was a real eye-opener especially when I thought I would just be learning different styles of the French language.
