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Geology Blog(TM) Ray/ geology student in MI/ And I'm gonna change the world some day. Icon by @the-mewrderus-duck Ya Wanna Geology Shirt?

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Skyline Drive, Canon City Colorado

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I’ve been back from field school for a hot minute and boy howdy am I glad

I sorta like forgot about all my social medias while I was out there, hopefully I can be better about maintaining this blog but! I’m a lot more active on my Insta: rocksandroles. It’s certainly not geology-exclusive but there are some rocks involved.

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I leave for field school at 8am tomorrow and I am the anxious

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Only two days left I’m ready to go HOME

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I leave for field school at 8am tomorrow and I am the anxious

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Last week I took a trip to Marquette to do my research and I can never return because I fell int Deer Lake on a sub freezing day and half the people of the Ishpeming McDonald's know I was there doing research on a grant from NASA and the other half know I fell into a frozen lake.

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My camera roll is cramped with images of rocks… Still not a rock expert

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My mom let me read The Outsiders and Stephen King too young and now all I do is wear striped shirts and do subtextually homoerotic knife stuff with my friends down at the quarry.

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If you’re in a quarry, you’re looking for a dead body or kissing your friends. NO exceptions.

Geologists do not interact.

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Hi everyone I’m back here’s the outcrop I mapped my last day of junior year.

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id like to present to you my proposal for a Michigan-less super lake

Lake No More Michigan

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Lake Michigone

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do it drown us

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Indigenous traditional land owners protest against fracking in the Northern Territory by drilling into the NT parliament lawn.

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idk i just wanna vent to someone who might get me?? im studying ecology and evolution and i love it but it feels like theres no work or internships and im really interested in studying stuff like geology but im too deep in my major to switch. i know theres work out there but everything is so competitive and i feel so unqualified and im just so scared that this degree might be a waste

Hello! I have no idea how long ago you sent this but I feel your pain! 

Rest easy in the knowledge that Earth sciences are always hire able, though! You may have to get creative and work outside of your field for a bit (peep me working campus security going on four years now to make ends meet), but if it’s what you love, you’ll find your way back to it. 

One thing you may consider if you want to transition to working more with geology is National Parks and other organizations that do conservation work. My experience is entirely based on an American perspective, but organizations that do things like protect forests or protect watersheds are looking for people with wide ranges of experience, and you’ll be able to jump between work and topics.

All this to say, you’re going to be amazing, no mater what you decided to do. Your career path may take an unexpected turn, but you’ve made it this far!

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From @lettrisms :  The GSA and AGU have wonderful resources in terms of fellowships/stipends/REU's for undergrads as well

Yes! Thank you for mentioning this!

If you have the opportunity, I’d recommend networking a whole bunch, try to make it to GSA (I’ll be there again this year!). Join all the free chapters (AIPG, NGWA, IAGD, stuff like that!)

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Hello, I'm a new geology student. Can you explain about tidal bars and which geobody dimension I should use to find the width from thickness?

This is well beyond my area of expertise, sorry! Are you learning about this in a sedimentary geology or a geomorphology course?

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idk i just wanna vent to someone who might get me?? im studying ecology and evolution and i love it but it feels like theres no work or internships and im really interested in studying stuff like geology but im too deep in my major to switch. i know theres work out there but everything is so competitive and i feel so unqualified and im just so scared that this degree might be a waste

Hello! I have no idea how long ago you sent this but I feel your pain! 

Rest easy in the knowledge that Earth sciences are always hire able, though! You may have to get creative and work outside of your field for a bit (peep me working campus security going on four years now to make ends meet), but if it’s what you love, you’ll find your way back to it. 

One thing you may consider if you want to transition to working more with geology is National Parks and other organizations that do conservation work. My experience is entirely based on an American perspective, but organizations that do things like protect forests or protect watersheds are looking for people with wide ranges of experience, and you’ll be able to jump between work and topics.

All this to say, you’re going to be amazing, no mater what you decided to do. Your career path may take an unexpected turn, but you’ve made it this far!

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I forgot to tell y’all but I’m still around! I’ve just been super busy with trying to pass calculus and not online much! I’m on Instagram more! @ rocksandroles 

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Dewatering structures on bedding planes amirite

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Me, a disgraced academic turned farmer, surveying my crops: Finally… I am out standing in my field