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Geology students attending a field camp in Madison.
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1978
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Geology students attending a field camp in Madison.
Montana
1978
The professors said we could strap them to the hood of the vans with paracord
Field camp week 3 photo dump, including pics from the big salty (Great Salt Lake)
post field camp coffee!! (Missed the real world, 5 weeks in the wild was smth else)
Fascinating. Reading Fedal fanfic and they’re eating at the very same place we almost got kicked out of at field camp because the boys had spent most of the free day in a bar. Shoutout to Pasta Jay’s they have good pizza lol. ALSO HOLY SHIT Fedal qualify for the I Lost My Second Virginity At Pasta Jay’s sticker. This is fucking surreal
I just got an email that I got an interview for a summer job I really want. It's co-instructing a 6-week geology field camp! I've been a teaching assistant at a field camp before so I'm excited to move up the hierarchy a little.
Geologic mapping is my passion and I also love teaching, especially in the field. My field camp experience changed my career trajectory and I love helping students also discover that passion. But I also think there's an important conversation to be had about how field camp is traditionally seen as a 'rite of passage' by being as physically and mentally challenging as possible, which isn't always the best learning environment for students. The vast majority of jobs do not require you to hike very fast up a mountain following your professor who is literally a mountain goat, and students shouldn't feel shitty about not being able to work at that pace. I loved the learning part of field camp, but at my first one, the intense pressure caused a major relapse in my eating disorder.
Now that I'm on the teaching side of things, I've been trying to emphasize that you can be a great geologic mapper and do fieldwork even if you're not a mountain goat. And also that if you aren't a great geologic mapper and hate fieldwork that field camp shouldn't ruin your outlook on your skills and knowledge or your self-esteem. There's room for everyone to succeed in geoscience and I wish that undergraduate degrees emphasized that more.
I'm in the field rn and my prof is making the TA hold the whiteboard 😭😭 justice for Carlos
sorry for not posting lately lol but here’s pretty folding in marble
