Learning Statement
“Mercy!” cried Gandalf. “If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?”
“The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas,” laughed Pippin. “Of course! What less?” —J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers |
If I could, I would take every class the UW offers. That was more or less my mindset as a freshman student. I didn’t know what I wanted to major in, had only a vague notion that I preferred science over other fields, and was set on taking whatever class seemed the most interesting and fun. I wanted to learn it all, but unfortunately four years is but a limited amount of time and prioritization was necessary in order to graduate. I followed the call of birdsong and whispering leaves and weird-sounding words like island biogeography, habitat connectivity, and ecological modeling to my current major of environmental science. I enjoyed every second of it, but I couldn’t help but worry about all the knowledge from other fields I was missing out on. Luckily, I had Honors to help satiate my need to know obscure, definitely-not-within-my-major topics, like the history of ancient temples in Jerusalem, or the politics behind the food pyramid. While I may not have taken every class the UW could offer, the scope of classes and topics I’ve studied surprises even myself at times.
My portfolio is a record of my academic wanderings and adventures, through Honors, environmental science, study abroad, and everything in between. Some events recorded here were boring (intro Chem, I’m looking at you). Others changed my life. All of them influenced my undergraduate experience at the University of Washington. My time as an undergraduate has drawn to a close, but I look forward to my next steps with anticipation, knowing unequivocally that environmental science is a passion I intend to pursue. My future is far from a straight line of progression, but rather a winding path that flows like nutrients through an ecosystem, exposing me to myriad different topics, knowledge, and adventures. I am excited to see where it leads.
My portfolio is a record of my academic wanderings and adventures, through Honors, environmental science, study abroad, and everything in between. Some events recorded here were boring (intro Chem, I’m looking at you). Others changed my life. All of them influenced my undergraduate experience at the University of Washington. My time as an undergraduate has drawn to a close, but I look forward to my next steps with anticipation, knowing unequivocally that environmental science is a passion I intend to pursue. My future is far from a straight line of progression, but rather a winding path that flows like nutrients through an ecosystem, exposing me to myriad different topics, knowledge, and adventures. I am excited to see where it leads.
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