I'm Patty Standring. I'm an undergrad at UT studying geophysics
Probably one of my favorite things about the class is that you work in teams and
each of the teammates come from very different backgrounds and different
experience levels. We were able to kind of help each other and like talk each other up
when we needed to. For me, that was really helpful in addition to what the professor's provided. I learned a lot
I didn't realize that
this kind of work could be done and it was like a really new research experience for me and it kind of changed my
academic trajectory. I had those experiences now and not many undergrads can say that they they've done that. Following class
I was able to present a poster at AGU talking about the class and its benefits and how wonderful it is and
after that I was actually able to go on two different research cruises in the same area collecting more data,
doing coring and seismic data collection.
Those are opportunities that I would not have had without this class when I started the course.
I was not sure that I was gonna be able to handle it and then at the end I was
confident in myself and my ability to actually conduct research and you know to be able to contribute to science
Which was very rewarding for me.
