Video of the Week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_eU7b2waQ
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| Learning to Play Scopa |
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| Snack & Chat |
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| Pumpkins at Snack & Chat |
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| Tiger from Noah's Ark |
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| Suki and Shelia Playing |
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This past Saturday inspired the blog post that you are currently reading. I went with members from the UGA Pre-Vet club to a place about 1.5 hours away in Locust Grove called Noah's Ark. Noah's Ark is an animal sanctuary that many different animals, including emus, tigers, and wolves, now call home.
If you happened to read my post from a couple of weeks ago (that one where I listed out my passions in life), you can probably guess where this is going. For those of you who didn't get the chance to read it, I'll fill you in a bit. Basically, animals are one of the biggest passions in my life. I love being able to help animals and especially love when people are positively impacted through animals. That's why I love organisations like Noah's Ark.
I don't really think I've yet taken the time to share where I see my life in a few years, so that's hopefully what I'm going to do in this here blog post, Jack. For those of you who don't know, I'm currently a junior at the University of Georgia. I just found out I'm graduating a semester early which is awesome, but a little scary at the same time. That means I'll technically be a senior next semester (pause for dramatic effect). What is this madness?
Yeah, so after I finish undergrad, I hope to go on and get my Masters and PhD or go in and straight up get my PhD...or however that works. Basically, I'll be in school for quite a while more. I really hope to stay at UGA and go to grad school in Warnell or the Vet school, but it really all depends on funding and other opportunities I find. I would love to do research with Aussie dingoes in how captivity influences reproduction and stress and what not, but we'll see. I'm also currently looking into an Animal Behavior program out in Arizona (that's so far away...). And now I literately have less than a year until I'll actually be applying for these things. I sense a GRE coming in my future.
After all the schooling comes to an end (aka: by the time I'm 30 and broke...), I'll hopefully get a job with an animal sanctuary doing care and a little bit of behavioral research type stuff. AND eventually, I hope to transfer this over to the grand continent of Australia. I wouldn't mind working with an organization like the NSW Animal Welfare League because I LOVE what they do and their purpose but I would also like to work with wildlife.
That's pretty much where I am at this point. I'm trying to keep myself from literately planning out every year of my life because, you people who know me, know that I will try and do that. But, to be honest, things may change. For example, if you had asked me 11 years ago what I wanted to do with my life, I would have told you that I wanted to be an astronaut. Obviously, that's not what's in the stars for me. (GET IT!? Twas a pun.) But for real.
I'm kind of trying to still work on the whole letting God work through me kind of thing. So my plans might not really be his plans for my life. But it'll be good - that much I know for sure. I do know that He's given my my passions for a reason, and if there was some way I could be a traveling animal photographer - sign me up!
And now I'm going to continue to work on my report on sharp-tailed grouse cause that's what I do with my life, and I love it. Righty-oh!
(And for those of you who are picky and think I didn't actually answer the last part of my title, here's the reason for why I want to do what I want to do. It's because I love it. Simple as that; nothing fancy, really.)
Happy Fall!
Megan
Fun Fact: If NASA sent birds into space, they would die. Birds need gravity to swallow.
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