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What I Most Look Forward to in My Environmental Science Class

I think what I look forward to most with this course is just getting a feel for what environmental science is really about. Although I am an environmental science major now, when I started college, I planned on majoring in Art History. Since then I've just been knocking out the basics like government and history, so I'm excited to finally get a taste of environmental science.


What I Think This Class Will Be About

For this class, as it is my first of the sort, I'm not quite sure what to anticipate. However if I had to guess, I'd say conversations about how the different components of our environment interact as well as how we impact the environment and vice versa are to be expected. What that means for classwork on a day-to-day basis, I'm interested to find out.

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