I love science.

Thusday Week 4

I thoroughly enjoyed our first class with our instructor Pi Aaron. He is an undergrad graduate, in ecology, and past participant, that for a while was holding down the ecology side of the program. Durring his year there were only three hard scientists on the program, our year there are 20. I’m finding I like ecology more and more, and I’m surprised by how, personally, I find it even more engaging than I thought I would. I love science.

Today, Pi Aaron led a discussion on the reading, which involved the philosophy of the deep ecology, and this history of ecology or rather, science, as it led to the formation of first ecology, and, as the author seemed to see it, the leading of ecology to deep ecology.
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O.K. so cody and I just ahd a great little synopsis conversation about the education so far at ISDSI. I wish I could just project it into this journal.

We talked about how this program brings together people of such interesting backgrounds of expertiece, and how excited we are to start engaging in conversations where we can all bring in our areas of knowledge, and engage in formulating rich understandings of these issues.

The education so far has been over-arching (drawing the key points out of whole fields), Cody summed it up well by saying something like “its amazing, that in a two hour exercise we summed up all of the key points of that 11 week course I took on social science research”. The lectures, in ecology, philosophy of ecology, climate change, Thailand culture and political history, burma, social science research, gender relations, ext, have been designed to give us a clear understanding of the overarching structure of these areas, and the most necessary take home points. This review is very valuable because very often in my acadmic experience people get so tied up in learning about, or teaching about the details they loose tract of the context that makes them relevant. This structure is useful so that we have a place to store our tid-bits of knowledge, philosophies ext, and so we are all on the same page when we dive into the details. It has been interesting to have lectures on social science research (which I’ve never encountered before) to ecology (where I participated in actual research this summer) all the way to climate change (after coming home from the National Udall Scholarship Conference). Side note: the more I knew, the more interesting I found the lecture (even though it was review). This is extremely fortifying in my passion for those areas, and my drive to pursue them further.

Rew just showed up. Got to go walk to the market with him! And ride home on a motorcycle!