This grits DUmmy is apparently a high school teacher, contacted by a former student now in his late 30s. The grits DUmmy is so proud of this former student, who is nearing 40 and has accomplished exactly nothing with his life. Despite a couple of decades of majors, minors, and "focuses" (whatever that is) he's still a student, and I defy anyone to read the following and then explain what in hell he is doing:
Are_grits_groceries (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-11-09 05:54 PM
Original message
I got an email from a student who I taught 20 years ago:
So I graduated from South Lakes and did my undergrad at the University of Oregon (a world away from Northern VA). I studied biology and minored in chemistry with a focus on ecology. After graduating I worked seasonal wildlife biology jobs for a while in CA, OR and CO. After a while it became clear that this was not really enough and I needed to go back to school. I had a weird epiphany one day about becoming a high school science teacher so I did an M.A.T. with a focus on biology. I didn’t get a job anywhere that I wanted to live so I ended up spending just under a year traveling and working in Costa Rica as an ecological/tourist guide.
When I got back to the states I ended up getting a job working for a museum in OR directing an NSF funded project that was a natural resource management and technology career exposure program for Native American students focusing on salmon mitigation efforts with a major cultural integration component. I did this for 5 years and I’m currently a doctoral student at Oregon State University in the Science and Math Education Department focusing on free choice learning. I want to help facilitate outreach and education efforts for watershed scale restoration projects, I’m looking at ways to reach diverse stakeholders in these endeavors, particularly private land owners. I’m researching collaborative efforts and mechanisms for making inroads into rural communities where agriculture/logging is king. I want to try and change the way people approach land use and resource extraction. Ultimately I want to help create/enact land-use policy that will help balance natural resource extraction with ecological conservation. These are big goals and I’m just staring my Ph.D. and I’m already aware that I need to narrow my focus but I’m trying to clarify my interests.
Basically conservation and the preservation of wild areas have been a passion all my life. I’m studying different aspects of what goes into generating personal interests and emotions towards different subjects. I can now look back and recognize that your class had a huge impact on me at a critical period of my life. ......
........blah, blah, blah, words and more words with zero meaning...blah
So here you go, 20 years later. I just wanted to make sure you know these things.
Thanks.
You never know. Ya know. I am utterly speechless.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6993785 You just read the kind of educational mumbo-jumbo that causes DUmmies to spend years, and many thousands of Dad's money, to pursue unmarketable, useless degrees. They just know that school, and all that goofy mumbo-jumbo above, beats hell out of working, and doesn't include any of those pesky, judgmental math subjects.
DUmmies are, without exception, ecstatic, even though not a single one understands anything whatever about what he just read:
CurtEastPoint (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-11-09 06:02 PM
1. Kudos on a job well done; and to the young person, also! n/t
Sukie (483 posts) Wed Nov-11-09 06:03 PM
2. You should take great pride in that letter.
Congratulations on being the kind of teacher that made a difference.
johnnie (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-11-09 06:04 PM
3. That's so cool
You must be beaming.
DUmmy OUTOTN doesn't know what the budding moonbat is doing, but is nonetheless brought to tears by the words "salmon", "ecological", and "land-use":
OnceUponTimeOnTheNet (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-11-09 06:26 PM
13. K&R.
Made me cry to boot.
This bonfire goes on and on with DUmmy after DUmmy congratulating the grits DUmmy on his protege moonbat.
