Being away from family and friends yesterday was extremely difficult. I was extremely disappointed I could not go home for the weekend due to the outrage costs of plane tickets. It would have been too much money to drive home as it would take over 10 hours to get home so I decided to stay at USC- Aiken. It was so nice of Dr. CK and Dr. Wierda to put together a wonderful event on July 4th. We played many rounds of volleyball, grilled hot dogs, went to the swimming pool and watched a wonderful fireworks show by Dr. CK and Dr. Wierda. I was so grateful to participate in this as it was such a great relaxing time to mingle with the other interns and celebrate a holiday on campus. The food was wonderful we had hot dogs, watermelon, corn, chips, beans, and drinks. Allie (my roommate) and I decided to bake cupcakes with red, white and blue sprinkles. They turned out very good. This was an exciting way to start of this session.
Today in ENV 490: Principles of Pollution Control we learned about many sources of pollution in Dr. Wierda’s lecture. We watched a very educational movie called Poisoned Waters. After getting back to my dorm, I reflect on the movie and the lecture. I am still in shock that so many companies will not step up and take responsibilities for their actions regarding outflows of pollution from their organizations. This movie made me think that when I get older I will definitely look into background checks of the areas before I purchase a piece of land as I do not want to purchase land with contamination or high levels of PCB’s.
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Yours truly,
Brittany
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