I just wanted to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Alexandra Boatman, but I like to go by Alex. I'm a junior Computer Animation student here at Ringling, so I'm pretty much always busy. I call Rosemount, Minnesota home and I try to suppress my "accent," but of course it leaks out every once in a while. Nowhere near as horribly exaggerated as in the movie "Fargo"...
I went to the School of Environmental Studies, which is a public alternative high school that's partnered with the Minnesota Zoo. I attended there for my last two years of high school, and absolutely loved it even though I never planned on a career in the sciences. I have a link posted on the right sidebar of my blog for my high school. What I loved about the school was that instead of learning about certain things from a textbook in a classroom, we would actually go out and learn from the outdoors. Like going out to a lake and taking samples and readings to test the health of the lake, or going to Fort Snelling to excavate some buckthorn, which is an invasive species of weed that looks very similar to a tree since they can grow up to 25 feet tall. I know all about the health of the environment where I live back home, but it's completely different here in Sarasota.
I have no idea how many of the plants that I see everyday on campus are native or not, but I never really have the time to find out even though I've been curious. I never really get a chance to get off campus, but I’m going to try and get off at least once a week for this class. It’s just REALLY difficult with the amount of work that I have to do for CA, plus I don’t have my own car and I really don’t like taking the bus down here.
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