#geo.posts

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Graduation

This is it! Im walkin today at my undergrad ceremony for my Bachelor’s in Geoscience! This is weird, the four years didn’t feel fast at all and I’m glad. I had a lot of fun and met so many cool people here, I can’t wait to keep going through the summer and see how fall will end up!

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GPA + applications

i’m just so ecstatic that i did well in chem this year. I know i got my grades like a week ago but i can breathe so much easier and focus on what’s ahead knowing i bumped my GPA up this semester! I went from a 3.03 to a 3.12, and i know spring will be great. It’s a mix of classes and research, and hopefully all will go well

Last application sent out tonight (ASU), finally free! I can really start my winter break. Plus, with a gift of 3 snowboarding lift tickets for xmas, doing the boardercross race at Blue Mountain is totally happening! 🤩 Feb 2, catch me on the slopes for my first real race lol!

Wild, never thought my other snowboarding dream would be realized! 🏂

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:0

This is so wild...my last finals of undergrad are next week and it seems so surreal :0

I walk next saturday

I finish my final chems in july

But im graduating like, next week! And that’s it on that chapter!! Wtf?? Time seemed so slow for so long and then it just sped up so fast here in this final stretch I can’t believe it.

Im super excited, and can’t wait for what this summer brings 🌟☀️🌳🦑

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College, REU update

March 7 - 2019

So I snagged my dude today before he left for London for research. He’s back home, and not leavin till the weekend, but I finally got a meeting between him and Dr Venn this morning! I need to acid etch pieces of low-grade Orthoceras fossils I cut last month. I’ll surround each piece with that clay we used for Museums, those will sit in glass trays; I’ll do my acid trials all on the same day. Testing two acids, acetic (1:10) and HCl (same protocol as Ropes 1982) to see what will etch better. Wish me luck, I start my trials on Saturday! 😬

Spring break won’t be much of a break, but I’ll have time to snowboard a few times at least. Before he left, he gave me the keys to the lab where the dermestids are soooo I’m the temporary Keeper of the Beetles! Ah well, at least I won’t forget to water my little pepper plants!!

Oh yeah, we planted 4 types of peppers in our first MPERS (Maps, Planning, Environment, & Rock Society) meeting a few weeks ago. They’re sprouting strong in B12 and they’re on track to being healthy plantos for our late-semester fundraiser!

While I was shown which geo lab has a hood and what materials I had there, Dr Venn asked me “now, do you add water to acid or acid to water?”

And everything all just hit me like “hhhhh” (the answer is acid to water btw, always add acid to water!!) Just all of a sudden like “holy shit ok ok I’m back on schedule now i’m gonna be doing chemistry and shit and i’m making a whole new method for this fossil wow now i have to DO the protocol i wrote and i need to do it right.” Like it just feels wild to do this type of lab stuff for the first time almost totally unstructured. I have the bare bones and I know what not to do, but other than that 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️!!!! It sounds like I’m totally unprepared but I’ve been documenting and annotating everything for weeks. :/

Let’s go do some science! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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well i feel better! i ate pizza at @not-a-real-punk ‘s, i had the good partner for chem lab and we did an efficient job, and nana brought home doughnuts for Fashnacht Day! ♥️ whatever i was feeling before must’ve vented out cuz i feel pretty good now.

I have Stats exam thursday and a Chem exam Friday; i’m only concerned about chem. Can’t wait to go in the streams for surface hydro!

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god i feel like shit today, i can’t wait for break to start and for one brief period of false hope i won’t have to think about my fucking chem lab. Its not even that bad, i just always have this feeling of dread before i go in? I’m not bad at labs, but everyone is SO SLOW like hurry the fuck up! I wanna go home! I don’t live on campus, and i will leave you behind work-wise so i can complete the lab!! As soon as i start it tho i’m always fast. Ugh idk i just can’t wait to not have chem here at Bloom anymore, it’s ridiculous. I’m so happy to graduate, but I don’t want to rush time. Hopefully my group doesn’t totally suck today (how do you not know how to make formulas in excel???)

I had such a great start to today too, snowshoeing with my fam in the fields, but i’m just getting worn down too fast today...i can’t wait to be back home again.

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My neighbor’s horse broke free again lol

Draft Horse, you’re such a gentle soul

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me? not having a girlfriend sit on my lap? tragic