It’s a new year everyone! Not much has changed for us yet, but it promises to be a big year for us. We’ll let you know as it unfolds. I am, of course, back in school again. This semester is actually one of my easiest that I’ve ever had. I have a couple of hard classes, but overall it’s much less work than I’m used to. I’m taking a weightlifting class just for fun. I’m taking a head and neck anatomy class to prepare me for med school. I’m taking a plant and animal interactions class that is starting to get more interesting. If any of you biology nuts out there want to learn about some interesting plant and animal interactions I can tell you about a few that are pretty neat. I also have a seminar class for biology seniors. That’s the class I want to tell you about.
One of our assignments in that class is to prepare a 10 minute presentation on the life of one of the scientists whose work we are studying this semester. When she passed the list around on the first day of class I saw an Italian name and signed up because I thought it would be fun to research an Italian. As I started my research I saw that he was still alive. At first I was disappointed because it’s hard to get good biographical information of a person who is still living. A few minutes later I found out that he still teaches at the University of Rome and he had an email address up on the web. I decided to email him and see if he would give me some information, after all, the worst that could happen is he would say no. In my email I explained who I was and why I wanted information about him. I’m sure he was surprised to get an email from Idaho in somewhat choppy Italian asking him for biographical information. Well surprised or not he answered my email with just the sort of information I was looking for. I was able to put together a pretty nice presentation and tie it in very well with the paper we discussed in class. The class laughed when I explained how I’d gotten my information. Dr. Terrenato and I are still corresponding back and forth a little. It’s kind of fun.
Well best wishes for the New Year to you all. We hope things continue to go well.
Stewart and Becky
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I want to take a combination of your classes: "Head and Neck Weight-Lifting"
Then I will finally be able to join the circus as the guy that balances the acrobatic elephants on my head.
Post a Comment