Portfolio

In case anyone reading my blog is interested in majoring in one of our wildlife programs I thought you might be interested in my Wildlife Ecosystems and Management course that is the senior level course for most of our wildlife programs. For our final project we have been assigned to develop a portfolio based on [...]

Graduation

I can still remember my first day at Unity. Setting up my room, meeting my roommate, saying goodbye to my parents, the usual first day of college milestones. Most of my readers are probably going to be having a similar experience this fall, however, I would like to talk about the other end of the [...]

Bowling Team

Unity college decided to try its first attempt at a bowling team this semester. The athletic director, Chris Kein, sent out an email and asked for people s names and bowling averages. I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of the 5 students to represent Unity in the tournament. For the past few weeks [...]

Presidential Seminar Final Project

As the year winds down at Unity (3 weeks left of classes!) we are being assigned more and more of our final projects. I was lucky enough to be selected to be part of a seminar class taught by the college’s president Mitch Thomashow. I have blogged about this course several times from the reading journals, [...]

Crime Scene Project

Summary of my mock crime scene project… Situation: At 9:00 AM you receive a call to meet with a complainant at the Pittsfield shooting range. The complainant: At approximately 9:30 AM on Thursday, March 31st, myself and co-worker Paul Dapkus met with Tim Blake who was plowing out the shooting range with his tractor. He explained to [...]

37 days…

With 37 days until graduation I can see the anticipation growing within my fellow classmates. It seems to be a mixture of emotions containing joy, mystery, nerves and leaving behind that which you have known for such a long time. However, at this point in our lives, the number one thing on every seniors mind [...]

Finals have begun!!!

I recently received my first final project assignment of the year so I thought some of my readers may me interested in what it is going to entail. This is for my Conservation Law Enforcement Capstone class and will take up that lab portion of the class for the rest of the semester. For this final, [...]

Freedom to Choose

As I have mentioned in several of my previous postings I am currently in the Presidential Seminar on Asia. We spent the first half of the semester studying for and learning about the Camden Conference but now we have transitioned into phase two of the course which requires us each to take on a research [...]

Spring Break!!!

So as soon as I get out of work today I will be heading home for spring break! We have all seen the movies where people take road trips, fly to Cancun and all over the place for vacations. But the truth is, being senior year, a lot of my friends and I are using these two [...]

Cool Projects

There have been some very interesting projects taking place by students here at Unity College. In the fisheries lab you can see we have a fish tank set up with plants growing on top of it. At first glance you may simply think this is a project on top of a fish tank. But the [...]