As Wednesday approached (our last day of classes), we were frantic to get all of our work in. Monday through Wednesday was filled with essay writing and presentation practicing. In Josh’s english class, our final project was to chose a scene from any text we’ve read over the semester, adapt it by adding dialogue, and […]
This last week of the semester means a last push for the academics. In almost all of our classes we have had final projects. While this sounds stress-inducing, almost all of the projects were presentations, making them more interesting than papers and research projects. It is a very HMIthing to have all of the final aspects
This last week of the semester means a last push for the academics. In almost all of our classes we have had final projects. While this sounds stress-inducing, almost all of the projects were presentations, making them more interesting than papers and research projects. It is a very HMIthing to have all of the final aspects
It’s been eight days now since we returned from Thanksgiving break. We had a joyous reunion at the Denver airport; most of us sporting new haircuts and outfits from our other homes. This airport experience was drastically different from our first one back in August. Instead of awkwardly introducing ourselves to strangers, we bombarded each
It’s been eight days now since we returned from Thanksgiving break. We had a joyous reunion at the Denver airport; most of us sporting new haircuts and outfits from our other homes. This airport experience was drastically different from our first one back in August. Instead of awkwardly introducing ourselves to strangers, we bombarded each
Group A Group A began their third and final expedition with a long, energetic, and fun-filled bus ride that took us all the way to Fry Canyon. Our whole crew spent the first exciting night together, in sight of the highway, where one tarp group was given an unexpected surprise: an unconventional, two-sided tarp as
Group A Group A began their third and final expedition with a long, energetic, and fun-filled bus ride that took us all the way to Fry Canyon. Our whole crew spent the first exciting night together, in sight of the highway, where one tarp group was given an unexpected surprise: an unconventional, two-sided tarp as
Family Weekend is just around the corner and everyone is very excited to see their families for the first time in over two and a half months. Families will be coming from all over the country and even the world. We will be having families fly in from Australia, California, Massachusetts, England and many other
This week several of our classes have been focused around a human ecology project. The goal of the project is to learn about the history, identity, and environment of Leadville. On Sunday we had the opportunity to go into town and interview locals about how Leadville’s identity has changed since the town’s mining days. We
Expedition Group A started off the trip south of HMI doing trail work near Twin Lakes. We quickly became accustomed to hauling wheelbarrows full of dirt across a bridge to the trail site and tamping the dirt down. When we finished there, we drove north past HMI where we met with Liz’s group the next day to do more trail
