Online Opportunities

Our classes really do help us with our careers. This past weekend I just got back from an Itasca State Park bud capping opportunity, where we go out and volunteer and bud cap a whole bunch of pine seedlings. And I've gone out and I've done some applied learning in different soil pits on the north side of campus, making sure that we put everything that we've earned in class forward into an actual substance and you can see it firsthand. I think the learning atmosphere is very hands on and very helpful. And I think it'll really help me in the future. I've learned a lot by teaching lessons and figuring out what actually works and what doesn't and then reflecting on that. Learning from those mistakes will help me to not make them again in the future. Being a student at the University of Minnesota Crookston everyone gets a laptop, which is pretty awesome. The computers that they gave us, they are really nice. They have touch screen. It has definitely helped us, especially in classrooms, when everybody has the same exact model. One of the cool programs that we have here is Equine science and we actually have horses on campus that students can take riding classes. I'm taking a raptor ecology class, which has to do with wildlife management. And we actually go out and we track raptors. And we've been catching lots of red tailed hawks and we've been trying to catch some American kestrels. And it's really cool to actually go out and use those skills. I had the opportunity to study abroad in New Zealand and Australia for a month and a half. And in high school I always thought it would be fun to study abroad, but I never thought it could actually happen. My experience has been really good. I've been able to have a lot of different opportunities that I didn't think that I would get at another school.