My name is Amelia and I am a first-year (freshman) here at
Lewis & Clark. I come from the small
town of White Bluff, Tennessee which is about 45 minutes west of Nashville. My family consists of my father, mother,
younger brother, younger sister, my mouse, a flock of chickens, 2 crazy cats, and
2 parakeets. I will likely be a biology
major and I am not sure whether or not I am going to minor in something. My hobbies include Venturing (coed scouting
for youth 14-21), general outdoors, identifying random plants and eating the
safe ones, fire, and wilderness survival/wilderness living.
I am a part of the Outdoor Pursuits Living-Learning
Community (LLC) housed in Manzanita Hall (AKA Manzi, it’s a part of Forest Hall).
Outdoor Pursuits does all sorts of fun
stuff such as weekend trips, ivy pulling parties, and a camp stove brunch every
other Sunday. The Environmental Action
LLC is also in Manzi.
Outdoor Pursuits at Cape Falcon Trail
One of my favorite things about Lewis and Clark is that every
class here (or at least the ones I am in) have some sort of active component. Within the first two weeks of biology
everyone designed an experiment to measure the effects of ivy on the local
ecosystem, in chemistry lab we’ve been working with gold nanoparticles and spectrometers,
in E&D we have massive colloquiums on the books we are reading, and just
yesterday most members of German classes went to go see one of three movies in
German during Portland’s German Film Festival.
Even if schoolwork is not your favorite thing there are still plenty of opportunities
to enjoy it.
Cinema 21 in Portland
I also will be posting here every week for the next
semester. If you have any questions you
would like me to answer feel free to send me an email at ameliaberle@lclark.edu. Have a great week!