Archive for August, 2008

Movies!

Swing Kids – I’ve been learning to swing dance this summer, and I really loved a lot of the dance bits in this movie.  The historical aspect is really interesting and pretty depressing.  Parts of it (especially the very end) were kind of over-dramatic, but it’s a pretty good movie overall. The Dark Knight – […]

Fieldwork

I took a course this summer that required quite a bit of fieldwork.  Toward the end of the class, we split into small groups and planned our own projects.  My group wanted to ask about forest succession.  We went on an exploratory jaunt through the Michigan State University’s Experimental Forest the first day of the […]