Hello All, my name is Colton James, from Anaconda Montana. I am a Junior pursuing a Secondary Education/Social Studies Degree. I served 4 years in the Marine Corps with a combat deployment to Afghanistan in 2011. Being from Montana, I developed an infatuation and respect for the security, beauty, hardiness of the Mountain life. While living in…
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by wmg •
Hello! My name is Meed and I am junior in the Political Science program. I am originally from a Westcliffe, Colorado, which is a small town in the middle of the mountains of Colorado. I spent most my life staring up at thirteen and fourteen thousand foot peaks, most of which, I climbed throughout my…
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A quick hello.
by The Crooked Spoke •
Hello all! I’m Noah Bosworth. I’ll be finishing up a degree in Conservation Biology and Ecology (focus in endangered species policy and fisheries ecology) next fall after six long years. I’m a transplant to Montana from the beautiful state of Maine, having made the move after my first attempt at school went up in smoke.…
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The price the Sherpas pay for Westerners to climb Everest – The Economist (on the 2015 documentary Sherpa: Trouble on Mount Everest)
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by lcm •
Hello! My name is Lauren Myers. I am a junior studying Secondary Education-SSB (History/Government) and Political Science. Growing up in the Midwest, Central Illinois and Kansas, I am completely unfamiliar with mountains and the issues that surround them. I’m looking forward to learning more about mountaineering.
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by Matt •
Hi everyone, my name is Matt DeSimone. I am a last year History SETS student, but mostly interested in environmental history. I also work for Visions Service Adventures, a community development/cultural immersion summer program for high school students based right here in Bozeman. I am taking this course to brainwash high school student’s minds about…
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by mmd •
Hello my name is Megan M. Dolezal, I am an aspiring classicist and this is only my second semester at MSU and also as a History/secondary education major. Previously I was at MSU-B as a Literature Education major but was not as passionate about literature as I am about history. Needing a change in pace…
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An intro from the professorial overlord (“overlord”)
by Maggie Greene •
Since I demanded all of you do a self-introduction, I thought it was only fair that I do my own – even though I babbled at you plenty at our introductory course meeting. I am a modern Chinese cultural historian: my primary work currently is on cultural reform and censorship in the People’s Republic of…
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Course Business
On (academically) writing about the “most literary of sports”
by Maggie Greene •
… Young people often ask, “How does one become a writer?” My answer is always simply: “By writing.” Writing is like experience: if you don’t experience things, then you won’t understand life; and if you don’t write, then you won’t know what you’re capable of creating. Yu Hua, China in Ten Words Mountaineering is often described…