School work really ramped up this week. A couple almost all-nighters were pulled with an exam and two huge essays all due this week. It definitely didn’t help that for a solid 12 hours I was kicked out of BP for the spring semester because housing assignments came out and apparently my housing application never …
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“Fall Break”
I started my Marine Zoology class this week and my professor (Dr Louise Allcock) is SO cool. She’s done a ton of research on deep sea corals and showed us a video from one of her robot dives that was insane. In our lab I got to work with the deep sea corals she has …
Galway -> Dublin -> Galway -> Dublin – Galway
Last weekend was soso fun because we had so many visitors! Haley and Joe came from London and Andrew and Leah came from Dublin all to spend the weekend with us in Galway! All of our friends got in around the same time on Friday morning so we had a good part of the day …
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Traveling all over Ireland
I’ve been fighting with my advisor since the day I got here about getting my classes approved back at ND and I’m FINALLY making some progress!! He is working on making my marine zoology class a science elective and my coastal dynamics class an environmental engineering elective which I can get an exception to count …
Oktoberfest
I had a whopping three days of class this week- it still feels like I’m on a vacation in Europe! Did I mention that two of the days I don’t start until 1pm? I’m living my best life over here. I still really like the classes I chose too. I have yet to befriend any …
Survived Week One!
It’s so hard keeping up with this blog- I feel like my school commitments are relatively easy/not time consuming but there is always SO much to do around here I never have a spare minute to just sit down and type (I am currently writing this on my 2.5 hour bus ride to Dublin- with …
Home Sweet Galway
I’ve been in Galway for almost a week and have only just now had a spare second to write something! I landed in Dublin and immediately found people from my program. Poor Claire and Una stopped at the O’Connell House early to pick up their bags and Robert (the director there) sent them back to …
72 Hours in Stockholm
So apparently we didn’t look close enough into the details of where we were staying in Stockholm, it was the most expensive place by far so we assumed it’d be nice! Turns out our tiny room was below ground (no windows), literally just a bunk bed, no AC (again) and had a shared bathroom with …
48 Hours in Oslo
Well, Leah and I almost got detained in Ireland for trying to start a small army. I unknowingly had children’s scissors in my backpack and she had knitting needles. They let us off the hook and gave our weapons back so stay tuned to see how far I get traveling Europe with these scissors! Oslo …
24 Hours in Dublin
We only had 24 hours in Dublin, so we had to make it count! Emily and I both landed at the same time and met each other outside of baggage claim. Leah’s flight got cancelled, so Emily and I navigated the bus to downtown just the two of us. I am most definitely the bus …
Keeping up with Katie 