We're creating an environment that we
can model all sorts of earth surface
processes. We can continually test what we understand, what we think we understand.
It's just part of the skills that you
learn by really being engaged with what
you're doing. There's lots of grants to
help students go to meetings, there's lots
of grants to support student research. At
a larger school, you may or may not find
your way into that lab. Here
it's an expectation. Almost all of the
projects that you see in this room are
students working with other students.
Even though this is my senior research,
I'm actually working with the freshmen
in designing it. There's just a sense of
freedom. You can do what you want.
Lawrence in general, I feel like you can
do what you're passionate about. We engage
in authentic research, and we all have
students working in our labs helping us
with our own professional endeavors. So,
that process of going from the idea
generation, through conclusion and
exposition, and professional meeting is
about what you get in a master's program.
When I applied to grad schools, I already
had two abstracts, you know, kind of on my resume to put dow. It's not just kind of
you've gone through the classes here,
you've gone through the course work here,
you took the notes, but it's like the whole workings of becoming a
geologist. The kinds of hands-on things that we do
here, the kinds of troubleshooting, I
think are going to be applicable in a
wide variety of jobs.
