Well, I've decided that I need and want a PhD. I love teaching. I love my research. I love spending my summers outside doing research. Combine all those and you get me, ten years from now, leading a crew of undergraduates students through a forest (wetland/stream/grassland/ecosystem of your choice) while calmly conducting a biology lecture. Yes indeed.
So now, while I'm not working on my master's project I'll have this question to ponder: WHERE?
I know I want a degree in entomology with an ecology/evolutionary biology focus.
I've done some browsing. *I'll keep a list running here with options
Right now, my top two choices are:
Michigan State University: Dual doctoral program in entomology and ecology, evolutionary biology and behavior. This program seems incredible-- and when I'm done I'll have two doctorates, which is a bit baffling. (And super cool!!)
Ohio State University: Entomology program seems pretty good, know a few people from there as well. Closer to home than Michigan.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Busy Busy Busy!
ohmygoodness!
Research, working, and keeping up with friends and the family have me runnin! :) I love it though.
The research is going really well. I've added sweep nets to the collecting, so I've got a bunch of stuff to sort through! It's gonna be a really busy winter! Spent about an hour cleaning my corner of the messy lab-- looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a few years. Some say a messy lab is just a consequence of genius, I say a messy lab makes it easier to lose things!
Collecting is a lesson on patience, it's going pretty well-- I'm sorting through the sweepnet stuff when I can, but I'll probably do the majority of that starting in December. The entire group does quite a bit, it's kind of funny cause we just pull up and descend on the sites, this giant crew that collects and measures and samples as fast as we can, then we jump in the cars and drive off. In addition to my pan traps and sweep nets we've got pitfall traps, worms, isopods, birds, Mary's group from OSU that does pitfalls and sticky traps. Collectively we're putting together vegetation height complexity survey--it's INCREDIBLY tedious, and with mowing being unpredictable it's bound to be interesting.
Research, working, and keeping up with friends and the family have me runnin! :) I love it though.
The research is going really well. I've added sweep nets to the collecting, so I've got a bunch of stuff to sort through! It's gonna be a really busy winter! Spent about an hour cleaning my corner of the messy lab-- looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a few years. Some say a messy lab is just a consequence of genius, I say a messy lab makes it easier to lose things!
Collecting is a lesson on patience, it's going pretty well-- I'm sorting through the sweepnet stuff when I can, but I'll probably do the majority of that starting in December. The entire group does quite a bit, it's kind of funny cause we just pull up and descend on the sites, this giant crew that collects and measures and samples as fast as we can, then we jump in the cars and drive off. In addition to my pan traps and sweep nets we've got pitfall traps, worms, isopods, birds, Mary's group from OSU that does pitfalls and sticky traps. Collectively we're putting together vegetation height complexity survey--it's INCREDIBLY tedious, and with mowing being unpredictable it's bound to be interesting.
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