#geog131

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For those that remember when I took Geog 131 with MacDonald with me know what a bitch of a class it was, especially the exams! It was a TON of stuff we covered regarding the Holocene, from all of the dates about the Fennoscandian, and Laurentide Ice sheets, thermal inertia, thermal maximum, fun stuff like Perihelion and Aphelion, milankovitch cycles, Dryas Stadials, Megafuna, eustatic sea level rises 12k-6k years ago, isostatic rebound, agricultural dispersion, Vavailovs hearths!, Childes oasis theory regarding the last glacial maximum, Iverson models of cryostatic, protocratic, mesocratic and Oligo/Telocratic stages, the green sahara, the mayans, libya, global volcanic activity, charles keeling, arctic amplification, greenland, and so much fucking more...

Well, here's the thing that I hadn't mentioned ... while I took the final exam, and y'all remember how much I studied for that damn thing and how stressed I was about it...

I NEVER GOT A DAMN GRADE!!!!

They had lost my paperwork. MacD kept telling me that he'd look for it, or that I should be patient that it just takes time to enter it into the system and this and that and whatever.

Well I happened to mention it to Marcus in Geog 166 and he looked into it and sure enough, it had been misplaced and he went ahead and graded it and just emailed me right now!

This is the email he just sent me:

I graded your exam according to the same rubric as all of the others. You got 98/100. This puts you in the upper echelon. Your errors were less precision than he wanted for the Viking occupation of Greenland, a mistake on the highest carbon emitter (China whereas you put the US). Your second long answer was sufficient; I thought that your first was very good. ---------

Holy crap!!! I'll take a 98 any day in that class!!!! That was a huge GPA killer of a course, and I really, REALLY, didn't ever want to deal with that subject ever again! Dude... I know it's not even 8am yet, but I need a drink!

[captawesomesauce]

Yet extinctions of even greater magnitude have occurred within the time span of human history considered in this book, notably in the Americas and Australia where up to 90% of all large mammals were lost. However, this ecological crisis remains known only to a narrow audience of specialists because no contemporary written accounts of it were handed down to posterity.

The Holocene: An Environmental History by Neil Roberts

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We went to Paracale the afternoon of the 9th. We went to some jewelry maker. Silversmiths, goldsmiths. Those kinda things. Then we loitered around and went to their church, then later to the bay at the end..

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After we returned from the Calaguas Islands, we stayed the night and the next day at the Bagasbas Lighthouse Beach Resort. Some classmates even surfed [my "cabin-mates" and I went to Daet instead].

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Basically my CamNorte album in Facebook. And NO. I don't have an Instagram. Sorry.

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They're providing the local communities the opportunity to work their place's resources to their advantage. They're kind enough to let us tour their workplace and everything! ((Pictures might follow, when I find them.))