Three years ago I didn't know anything about my field. No joke, I knew absolutely nothing. I knew that ecologists and scientists and whatnot existed and the most basic things about those professions. I was interested in climate and land use, but that means very little since I find that I am interested in just about everything. In fact, I was taking quite an interest at the time in sinkholes in Florida resulting from drawdown on the water table preceding rainfall events. So I had some interest in the topics, but I hadn't considered the professionals that were involved in obtaining the information for the topics.
I suppose that what I have learned that I am most impressed with is the effectiveness of flexible environmental regulations. It totally sounds like a bad thing, and it can taken advantage of by ethically challenged systems, but it has also been used for us to make a continual effort to do better. We collect all kinds of information about hundreds of thousands of projects, and we require public input for a lot of things. It's fantastic. Just having the information helps to ensure that we have the tools to make the best decisions possible in the future. I love that.
In the next 3 years, I hope to work on gaining some experience in my field. I'd like to see what some positions that actually use what I've been learning are like. After this summer, I plan on looking for positions that are closely related to the kinds of things that I think that I might like to do long term in my career.
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