2003-10-02

 
I have not posted in quite some time. Much idealism has been running around my head, but lately I have been considering posts in slightly-less scatterbrained form. The internet allows impulsive communications, which I often end up regretting. I would like to try to plan better to formulate more well-developed ideas, and I have no idea where this blog will turn. While I think it is important to track my activities on this blog, some issues of privacy have been coming up. Instead I will try to use this blog as my online journal -- a springboard for new ideas.

The Idealist's Path to Advanced Academics and Socioecological Action.
I just wrote an essay that is basically "how I hope to get into grad school". I wrote it for my friend, Skye Gruen, who I lived with while interning at North Cascades National Park. Like me, this friend is hoping to go to graduate school to study something socially & ecologically conscious: renewable energy from biological sources. I have a whole idea of how to go about embarking on the task to contribute to this sort of socioecological action. CLICK ON THIS LINK to read my new essay that I just completed today that tells how I believe an idealistic scholar can find their way into a grad school program that matches their ideals and hopes for changing the world (human society and ecological home -- this should encompass everything).

And on the personal note, I currently am working at UC Berkeley, doing research on Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria, discovering how to get them to produce hydrogen. Over the course of time, I will likely discover much more, and I hope that my stay in this particular laboratory has only just begun. It is incredibly refreshing to be back in an academic environment, and one of excellence, nonetheless. An entire building devoted to plant and microbial biology!!! Wow!!!!
posted by MM 11:32 PM