I was going to be a teacher for science
and then I took a geology class with one of the professors and I actually had to switch.
Just because everything about it just intrigued me
like it's a mystery to find out what makes earth tick and what created all the landforms it was just,
I want to solve the mystery so that is why I changed.
Geologist can be paleontologist where they study dinosaur bones to find out about our past,
they can be geophysicist where they study the effects of earthquakes,
they can go into geochemistry where we talk about oil, natural gas, groundwater pollution, all those sorts of things.
My favorite thing about the department is the camaraderie that we have
we take so many classes together that you see each other honestly forty-hours a week
and so you come to know each other so very well and the staff here is very supportive,
we're on first-name basis with all of our professors and all the faculty and staff.
So we can just talk to them as normal human beings.
CMU's um department goes on a lot of field trips and we're able to do those field camps
and get out there and actually work on
real-life rocks which is really nice so we
can take that back to the classroom and
integrate what we've learned.
For our spring break trip we're actually doing we're going to West Texas and New Mexico
will be doing like experience in doing
some hiking and just walking around we
are we meeting members of ExxonMobil and
just people in the industry will be able
to guide us and tell us you know what
they're gonna be looking for when
they're hiring people straight out of
college. It's a lot of preparation and
just just getting out to feel the geology.
