BUGS AND STUFF
It seems hard to believe, but some Metro students are already racking up college credits! A few of our second-year students attended math and foreign language classes at OSU this summer.
(By the way, they don’t allow us to call them freshmen & sophomores because the number of high school credits they’ve earned places them beyond such labels; therefore we have to refer to them in Harry Potter terms.)
Another opportunity for “first years” and “second years” to obtain college credits came earlier this month with a week-long trip to OSU’s Stone Laboratory.
For those of you not familiar with it, Stone Lab is the Lake Erie teaching and research laboratory of the Ohio Sea Grant College Program. Just before OSU’s new quarter began, 31 students took a course in either Aquatic Biology (fish) or Insect Biology (bugs!) Both sound pretty creepy to me, but the students seemed to have a great time.
An excerpt from a student’s Stone Blog: “Today is our second day here at Stone Lab, we took a trip to another island called South Bass Island where we had to collect different kinds of insects from all over the forest. After collecting a few insects under trees, bushes or just in the ground, we went next to Lake Erie to collect sea bugs to add to our collection.”
The fish credit was probably a smelly course, but it has to beat trying to catch flying, crawling and swimming bugs!
-- Posted September 25, 2007 --