It would be pretty cool if I could; problem is I don't have official qualifications in zoology or geology.
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I got the internship based on having physiology as one of my two majors (the other being psychology) and doing geology unofficially:
I attended geology classes and field trips between my other studies (because it was super interesting to me, and I wanted to study it but realised it too late).
Unfortunately you can't enroll two degrees at once while still passing, unkess you are super smart, so I am planning to do that as a third/fourth degree.
I also cannot directly pursue my other major, despite having done a honours degree in it as well.
I require at least a master's degree, and the criteria to be accepted is insane - you have to have amazing marks, write personal reflective summaries, go through several selection rounds, pass interviews, and finally after being able to enroll, you still have to pass massive board exams to get your practising license.
Not exceptionally. But my best friend wanted to be a paleontologist as a child, so I guess it's kinda cool to talk to someone who might actually be a paleontologist someday.
Also I think it's always great when people are able to work in fields they are excited about I literally can't imagine having a job studying dinosaurs and finding that dull. You know what I mean?
Personally I find human history to be more interesting, because I like the narrative. I enjoy gaining understanding of how events effected peoples which in turn effected events.
Yes, I know what you mean :) did she go study palaeontology then?
That is also a very interesting field, I agree. Do you want to do active or recent history or rather something like archaeology?
No, she didn't go to college because her family needed her to help take care of her grandmother, and that was too much to balance with work and school. Now she works for a greenhouse making sure that the plants that are sold by stores the greenhouse distributes to are taken care of. Which mostly involves making sure other people are doing their jobs and often involves setting up displays and sometimes involves watering plants. Basically she's a plant care supervisor.
I enjoy studying history, but I have no desire to attempt to do so professionally. Typically I prefer studying history that's old enough that no one alive remembers it, but recent enough that we have a fairly decent grasp on what happened both in the event and the events surrounding. For the most part I prefer western history from After the fall of Troy, and before the end of WW2. (I know people are alive who remember WW2, but the whole history of how WW2 came to happen is so interesting that I enjoy studying it anyway).
That's kind of her to help out, is it a floral -or vegetable-based greenhouse?
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That's pretty cool, and it's also good that you enjoy studying it despite not wanting to do it professionally. If you would like to visit these point of interest yourself, you can always look at offering tourguiding regarding historical monuments and events as temporary/part-time job and fund your travels.
It's not that I dislike recent history, I just prefer to listen to an older person tell me their life story, colored by recent history, than to hear about their involvement with particular events. Also, if the history is too recent than I feel as though the narrative its telling is particularly incomplete. I don't know how history will remember the US war in Iraq. I don't know what it will do to shape the world moving forward. I mean, propaganda and protects was near nonexistent on the homefront. And the Vietnam war was a propaganda and protest shitshow and that whole war isn't even touched on by American public schools. US public schools typically never get past WW2, and if they do, it's to talk about the civil rights movement. And if the war is discussed at all, it's only really the hippie movement that gets discussed. It's the fact that people tore up their draft cards which appalled their parents. It's never about why we entered the war or how we lost. We don't talk about it.
Yet, the War in Iraq was part of something bigger. It was part of an effort to combat a religious extremist terrorist movement. And that story isn't over. Children were hurt in a bombing suspected to be done by the Islamic State in Iraq yesterday. The Paris attacks were less than 4 years ago. We don't have enough perspective to know what the long term effects of this will be.
And I personally, prefer to gain understanding how how the world has been shaped, as opposed to speculation on how it will be shaped.
I understand what you are saying, although it bothers me that history is often told by the victor's side without regard for the perspective of the other party, and things done wrong by the victor party are glazed over as heroic, whilst everything done by the previous regime is considered bad.
Its floral, and she gets paid to do it. That's her job.
That'd be kinda cool, but I don't actually like to travel. It gives me anxiety. Travel was always a bad experience for me when I was a kid. As result I don't leave the state often and when I do it's to somewhere I can drive to in a day without getting up early, or staying out late. And I have a 1 hotel per trip limit. The farthest from home I've been in my adult life is only about 6 hours away. The farthest I've moved is only about 10 min, though I was seriously considering closer to an hour away when I found the place I live now.
I live in a small town in the midwest, so museums aren't really in any kind of supply.
I watch documentaries and read about history and get to talk about what I know whenever its relevant to strangers on the internet, so all that is pretty cool.
I assume you're going to be a paleontologist one day?
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I got the internship based on having physiology as one of my two majors (the other being psychology) and doing geology unofficially:
I attended geology classes and field trips between my other studies (because it was super interesting to me, and I wanted to study it but realised it too late).
Unfortunately you can't enroll two degrees at once while still passing, unkess you are super smart, so I am planning to do that as a third/fourth degree.
I also cannot directly pursue my other major, despite having done a honours degree in it as well.
I require at least a master's degree, and the criteria to be accepted is insane - you have to have amazing marks, write personal reflective summaries, go through several selection rounds, pass interviews, and finally after being able to enroll, you still have to pass massive board exams to get your practising license.
Do you enjoy the internship?
Yes, I do. I have learnt a lot, and I would certainly do it again if I had to rechoose.
Are you also interested in palaeontology?
Also I think it's always great when people are able to work in fields they are excited about I literally can't imagine having a job studying dinosaurs and finding that dull. You know what I mean?
Personally I find human history to be more interesting, because I like the narrative. I enjoy gaining understanding of how events effected peoples which in turn effected events.
That is also a very interesting field, I agree. Do you want to do active or recent history or rather something like archaeology?
I enjoy studying history, but I have no desire to attempt to do so professionally. Typically I prefer studying history that's old enough that no one alive remembers it, but recent enough that we have a fairly decent grasp on what happened both in the event and the events surrounding. For the most part I prefer western history from After the fall of Troy, and before the end of WW2. (I know people are alive who remember WW2, but the whole history of how WW2 came to happen is so interesting that I enjoy studying it anyway).
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That's pretty cool, and it's also good that you enjoy studying it despite not wanting to do it professionally. If you would like to visit these point of interest yourself, you can always look at offering tourguiding regarding historical monuments and events as temporary/part-time job and fund your travels.
And I personally, prefer to gain understanding how how the world has been shaped, as opposed to speculation on how it will be shaped.
That'd be kinda cool, but I don't actually like to travel. It gives me anxiety. Travel was always a bad experience for me when I was a kid. As result I don't leave the state often and when I do it's to somewhere I can drive to in a day without getting up early, or staying out late. And I have a 1 hotel per trip limit. The farthest from home I've been in my adult life is only about 6 hours away. The farthest I've moved is only about 10 min, though I was seriously considering closer to an hour away when I found the place I live now.
I live in a small town in the midwest, so museums aren't really in any kind of supply.
I watch documentaries and read about history and get to talk about what I know whenever its relevant to strangers on the internet, so all that is pretty cool.