posted Jun 19,
2012 5:16 PM by Rebecca Navarre
June 17 - 19, 2012
June 19, 2012
I arrived yesterday and moved into
Kalpana Chawla Hall on the University of
Texas at Arlington campus.
Coming from Wesleyan the first
impression of the University was based on its
size. 400 vs. 32000. After a few hours, my roommate and I got settled into our room and prepared for our first day participating in the NSF funded REU in Hazard Mitigation under the Civil Engineering Deparment. Orientation:
Monday and Tuesday included a
whirlwind of introductions to the other
professors and the other 10 people in our REU group.
Day 1 was basic REU information and a
quick presentation on each project.
Day 2 was all about ethic personal,
professional, research and student.
Overall experience:
Excited - to be on this huge campus
and being offered this extraordinary
opportunity
Nervous - Let's just be honest being
in a whole new place is crazy.
Questions thus far:
What does peer to peer look like in
action? And what is it really?
Why is the gym so far away?
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