This is the end of week six and I am practicing the very thoroughly researched, corroborated, and peer-reviewed technique called denial. Only three weeks left on the horizon and I don’t know how to react. On one hand I am definitely feeling the familiar, “I think I’m ready to take my last exam and do my final project and then sleep for a week straight” ache that I usually experience at the end of a semester. But the difference is I can whine about all of that with the comfort of knowing I’ll be back at school for another term in a couple months. I might never come back to OIMB. I might never see these hundred foot pines at the base of campus on my walk home from lab, never watch the fog roll in in real time from my window, never wander down the jetty shivering because I forgot a jacket again. So it’s different. More precious, I think. That’s quite enough catastrophizing for now, there’s still three weeks left! In terms of science, this week was fairly standard. Just before Dr. Galloway departed for a diving trip last week he gave me access to a new collection of diving footage. These videos were taken locally at Cape Arago last year, and this week I analyzed all twenty for kelp density. I was surprised that I managed to do almost double the amount of work I did for the last set of videos but I suppose I was feeling productive. Next week I’ll work on making figures from the new data and perhaps look into a comparison between the two data sets. In a personal turn of events, I went home last weekend. My mother’s birthday party was on Saturday, so on impulse I flew home with Flynn and Ytxzae to attend. I should mention “home” for me is Sunnyvale, CA. While we were there we visited San Francisco and explored for a while. The Golden Gate Bridge was as cherry-red as always and the wind was as obnoxious as I remember. Seeing my family for a few days was truly lovely. On Sunday we drove back up to Oregon and passed through the redwoods in Humboldt and the coast just beyond them. The whole thing was gorgeous and mind-numbing and memorable to say the least.
I think that’s all for now.
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AuthorHello! My name is Catalina, welcome to my blog! I am a rising Junior at NYU pursuing a degree in Biology and I'm from Sunnyvale, California. This summer I am working in Dr. Aaron Galloway's Coastal Trophic Ecology (CTE) lab developing video survey methodology applied to kelp forest monitoring. Thanks for reading! Archives
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