It has been a tumultuous week in the United States. I am beyond grateful for the safe spaces Lewis & Clark has provided me this past week to process, ask questions, and ponder what steps we can take next year when we enter the workforce. I am also grateful for the serendipitous timing of the […]

Here is my draft thesis outline! It was helpful to put all the moving pieces together on paper, and I got to look back on previous projects I’ve done for more references. This week was also my thesis research-in-progress presentation, and I got some helpful feedback from my classmates! One piece of advice was to […]

The Great Shake-Out panel on Wednesday was fantastic. There were four people on the panel: Jay Wilson, Chief Resilience Coordinator of Clackamas County Disaster Management; Felicia Heaton of the Portland Bureau of Disaster Management; our very own Liz Safran, geologist extraordinare; and Jason Holmgren, whose title I am unsure of, but he knows about Lewis […]

As it turns out, our thesis assignments have come to an end. In the midst of my rejoicing, I realized that although we don’t have any more “busy work” (which was barely even busy work since it was actually very helpful in guiding my topic formulation), this is the harder part. Now is the time that […]

I ran into a few issues while trying to collect data this week. I had plans to go around the neighborhood and look at notice boards at coffee shops, laundromats, and other public spaces, but as I was getting ready to go out, I realized I didn’t know where to go. I was interested in […]

I visited my friend in Seattle this past weekend and binge-watched a bunch of reality TV, so now I have a much more exciting way to look at thesis. I now imagine each week narrated by an un-identified voice (or maybe Jim Proctor) with a quick montage of clips of each of us doing our […]